Sean Evans

If your Facebook page has turned into a shrine to your relationship, pet, or newborn, no one will say anything, but all who are subjected to your news feed are totally annoyed. Super fans who turn their profiles into mausoleums dedicated to their teams are equally insufferable and one hundred times more pathetic.

American Entertainer

Charles Spurgeon

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

British Clergyman

Jim Harrison

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

American Writer

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

American Poet

Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

English Novelist

Richard Corliss

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Mausoleums often relate to historical or cultural importance, such as preserving the memory of personalities.

Cultural Significance

Mausoleums are architecturally significant structures and can be tourist attractions for their beauty.

Architecturally Grand

While mausoleums are associated with death, they can be places of reflection and not necessarily sad.

Not Always Gloomy

 She claims I have turned myself into a mausoleum, that I am a walking casket, news headlines have turned my identity into a spectacle, Bruce Jenner on everyone's lips while the brutality of living in this body becomes an asterisk at the bottom of equality pages. No one ever thinks of us as human

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 after the rulers passed away ancient egyptians believed they then became gods to prepare their journey into the afterlife the rulers constructed elaborate tombs including the great pyramids at giza and underground mausoleums in the valley of the kings

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 while as a woman, societal restrictions  prevented her from participating in many of the events a sultan would typically attend. To increase her visibility and solidify her claim to the throne, she constructed a public mausoleum for her husband,

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 with schools and mosques in hundreds of densely populated towns. The king's rich legacy persisted for generations and to this day, there are mausoleums, libraries and mosques that stand as a testament to this golden age of Mali's history.

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 Egypt's first pyramid is a 200 foot tall mausoleum of six huge limestone platforms carefully engineered to spread the weight of rock and prevent collapse.

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 he began building a second empire one that would accompany him into the afterlife it would become one of the largest mausoleums on earth more than

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