Headstone Quotes

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

To live in the hearts of others is not to die

The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Sleep, my little one, sleep.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

To know her was to love her.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Children bring their own love with them when they come.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!