Gravestone Quotes

Gravestone Quote of the day

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

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

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

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.

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

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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.'

She did it the hard way.

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.

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

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

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

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.'

To live in the hearts of others is not to die

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

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

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

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

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

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

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

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

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

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

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

The dead only knows their world.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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

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.

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.