Tombstone Quotes

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

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.'

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

In loving memory from the Family.

The Man of a Thousand Voices

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Cast a cold eye on life,
on death Horseman pass by

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

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.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

She did it the hard way.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

A good character is the best tombstone.

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime