Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. — Charles Spurgeon
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. — John Keats
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.' — Bette Davis
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. — Pericles
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery. — Gottfried Leibniz
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again. — Francois Mauriac
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. — Sydney J. Harris
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. — Eckhart Tolle
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. — Alice Munro
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? — Margaret Atwood
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
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.' — Gary Vaynerchuk
I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced. — Anne Lamott
Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. — Visar Zhiti
On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." — Tom Waits
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! — William Shakespeare
An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
She did it the hard way. — Bette Davis
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.' — Dick Van Dyke
The first shall be last and the last shall be first. — Killah Priest
O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To live in the hearts of others is not to die — Thomas Campbell
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius
What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what? — Simon Munnery
Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith. — Patrick Stump
He hath awakened from the dream of life. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'. — Eoin Colfer
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers. — Mort Sahl
...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'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
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — Thomas Browne
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. — Oliver Lodge
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. — John Milton
If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now. — Stephenie Meyer
He that endureth to the end, shall be saved. — Steve Berry
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. — Rudyard Kipling
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. — James Russell Lowell
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