Gravestone Quotes

That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that. Harper — Joe Hill

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. — Al Purdy

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone - 'I didn't mean to startle her. — Patricia Briggs

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what? — Simon Munnery

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A rose covered the top portion of the gravestone and underneath it read: Once your eyes have been opened, you can't un-know or un-see. — Rose Pressey

(On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill". — Spike Milligan

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith. — Patrick Stump

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude") — Visar Zhiti

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out. — Marilyn Manson

She did it the hard way. — Bette Davis

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. — Dan Wells

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him. — Tom Peters

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,' — Ian McKellen

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone. — Joni Eareckson Tada

They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations. — Jace Herondale

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements. — Ian McKellen

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.' — Dick Van Dyke

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. — John Twelve Hawks

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' — Jesse Ventura

When you die in a hundred years, they'll probably write on your gravestone, 'Here Lies Harper Price - Damn It, She Still Had Stuff to Do! — Rachel Hawkins

Let love be the gravestone
Lying on my life. — Anna Akhmatova

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all. — Soseki Natsume

If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work. — Beth Moore

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness — Maggie Nelson

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes

Sehun love Kai." he brushed his fingers on the gravestone. "Kai love Sehun."

"Sooooo much, Sehun... — FishMeAnEXo

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon. — Sheri Webber

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone. — Lawrence Fagg

Let love become the gravestone
That lies upon my life. — Anna Akhmatova

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" — Tim Burton

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.' — Doug Harvey

Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone. — Philip K. Dick

I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations. — Cassandra Clare

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.' — Steve Blank

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.' — Bette Davis

But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely! — Ursula K. Le Guin

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'. — Cilla Black

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." — Tom Waits

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone. — John C. McGinley

I think of myself as a comforter. That's what i want on my gravestone. — Charlie Price

These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
— Anne Lamott

The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis

Anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. — Michael Light

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?' — Damon Lindelof

The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls, — Ryan Graudin