Best Headstone Quotes

#1. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone - Author: Richard Puz

#2. All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'. - Author: Thomas Ligotti

#3. I hate that her headstone has a year on it for when she was born and another for when she died but only a dash for the life she lived in between. - Author: Juliann Garey

#4. Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone. - Author: M.L. Stedman

#5. Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void. - Author: Walter Savage Landor

#6. I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone. - Author: Matthew Woodring Stover

#7. It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters. - Author: Lady Gregory

#8. Children bring their own love with them when they come. - Author: Jean Ingelow

#9. Everything else, everything, is just human vanity, the dash on the headstone between the day we're born and the day we die. - Author: Victor Bevine

#10. Sleep, my little one, sleep. - Author: Padraig Harrington

#11. I told you I was ill. (On Millian's headstone) - Author: Spike Milligan

#12. Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. - Author: Oliver Lodge

#13. Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones. - Author: Ayana Mathis

#14. The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy. - Author: Francis Beaumont

#15. Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick. - Author: Karin Slaughter

#16. There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel. - Author: Juliette De Bairacli Levy

#17. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. - Author: William Cowper

#18. That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He ... died.' - Author: Phil Collins

#19. I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot. - Author: Jill Abramson

#20. I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.' - Author: Jenny Eclair

#21. The first shall be last and the last shall be first, - Author: Killah Priest

#22. The older I get
the quicker Christmas comes,
but if I had to give up the heavenly
taste of Guinness dark, I couldn't
live another goddamn day. Darling,
you can chisel that into my headstone. - Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

#23. I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life. - Author: Marianne Curley

#24. Headstone: death's bookmark. - Author: Les Coleman

#25. But she was gone, and Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching forward names, not looking back ones. The - Author: Ayana Mathis

#26. When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. - Author: Stephanie Klein

#27. Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. - Author: James Russell Lowell

#28. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning. - Author: Kevin Williamson

#29. I told you I was ill. (On his headstone) - Author: Spike Milligan

#30. I walked behind my father on the way to her headstone, he looked like a house that was caving in. - Author: Kyung-Sook Shin