Source: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978), p. 83.
“When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into
the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and
the assassin… in the dust, in the cool tombs.”
"Cool Tombs" (1918)
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Sterling Hayden
(1916–1986) American actor
Book I : Man at Bay, Ch. 5
Wanderer (1963)
Context: "I’ve always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can’t afford it." What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.
What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in — and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life? What follows is not a blueprint for the man entombed; not many people find themselves in a situation paying a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year (as if any man is worth that much). But the struggle is relative: it's a lot hard to walk away from an income like that than from a fraction thereof.
“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”
Giacomo Casanova
(1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
Referenced
“The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain.”
Victor Hugo
(1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.
La Conscience http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Conscience, from La Légende des siècles (1859), First Series, Part I
“Obedience is the tomb of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
4:3
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
“Raise your half-buried countenance from the sudden shower of dust, Parthenope, and place your locks, singed by the mountains breath, on the tomb and body of your great foster son.”
Exsere semirutos subito de pulvere vultus,
Parthenope, crinemque adflato monte sepultum
pone super tumulos et magni funus alumni.
iii, line 104
Silvae, Book V
“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”
James Beattie
(1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
The Hermit
“Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.”
Isaac Watts
(1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Hymn 63, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)
