Best Gravestone Quotes

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

Bette Davis

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

Wendell Phillips

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Al Purdy

#7. Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent gravestone in the cemetery.

Giles Tremlett

#8. 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

#9. I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

Cassandra Clare

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

Ian McKellen

#11. I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Henry Louis Gates

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

Edward Abbey

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Beth Moore

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

Damon Lindelof

#17. I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone; their clean hearts are soapstone. Their small sorrows are for children alone. And all of their stories will never be told.

Nicholaus Patnaude

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

Dan Wells

#19. She did it the hard way.

Bette Davis

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

Jesse Ventura

#21. A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can't look a gravestone in the eye and ask its forgiveness.

Fredrik Backman

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

Barbara Walters

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,

Ryan Graudin

#26. (On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".

Spike Milligan

#27. My name is Scarlet Stone. I was offered useful traits the day I entered this world. I passed on common sense, opting for the-edge-of-a-knife journey. When I die, I want my gravestone to have the word 'epic' on it somewhere.

Jewel E. Ann

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#29. They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.

Jace Herondale

#30. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks