Best Gravestones Quotes

#1. My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

Zach Roerig

#2. The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

Andy Andrews

#3. What did you hear? I whisper. He turns around and whispers back. Two people whispering.

Susan Ee

#4. He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

Cassiodorus

#5. Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Jane Smiley

#6. Some people won't have kids, but I'm not going to have parents. I'm burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Bauvard

#7. He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like himself. They were valuable tributes from loving relatives, who'd cared about those people in life; the gravestones were historical records.

Charmian Hussey

#8. Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Dean Inge

#9. The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

Ruskin Bond

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

Visar Zhiti

#11. 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

#12. Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Emile Zola

#14. This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names free from soil.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Sarah Dessen

#18. Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar's, an empire that stretched from the Scots border to the Mediterranean Sea.

Sharon Kay Penman

#19. The start date and the end date are always the important bits on the gravestones, written in big letters. The dash in between is always so small you can barely see it. Surely the dash should be big and bright and amazing, or not, depending on how you had lived.

Brooke Davis

#20. Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

Betty Friedan

#21. I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no memorials to heroes, no gravestones, no paper and no ink.

J.M. McDermott

#22. We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?
A deed without a name.
We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.

Tessa Gratton

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

Dan Wells

#24. Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.

Maureen Corrigan

#25. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here.

Billy Graham

#26. also may be untrue. 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? Does Luke hope?

Margaret Atwood