Best Tombstone Quotes

#1. 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 Haddon Spurgeon

#2. She did it the hard way.

Bette Davis

#3. The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24

Robert R. Mitchell

#4. CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.

Larry McMurtry

#5. As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

Stephen King

#6. In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Albert Schweitzer

#7. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. I want you to put 'He didn't want to ride the damn horse' on my tombstone.

Abigail Roux

#9. It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Joe Jamail

#10. A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

Jack Dempsey

#11. You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Rosario Dawson

#12. Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord?

Adam Hochschild

#13. If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

William Shatner

#15. Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

Charles Kuralt

#16. Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Doc Holliday

#17. I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

#18. I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid.

Harlan Coben

#19. There occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

P.G. Wodehouse

#20. I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

Harry S. Truman

#21. I was vanquished by a deer!'
A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier.
That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.

Brandon Mull

#22. Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

Douglas Rushkoff

#23. Jev was certain the words "should've known better" would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

Katherine McIntyre

#24. Death is a debt to Nature due
Which we have paid and so must you.

Tombstone Epitaph In Tatamagouche Nova Scotia

#25. Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues

Bob Dylan

#26. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

#27. I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

Mario Cuomo

#28. Man must endure his going hence.

C.S. Lewis

#29. I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Keanu Reeves

#30. Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

Nigel Barker

#31. Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

A. C. Green

#32. The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Roger Goodell

#33. My current verdict would be: Crazy Eyes. Nice Ass."
"I think I want that on my tombstone.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#34. Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Billy Sunday

#35. I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Eliza Coupe

#36. I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Ann Richards

#37. Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

Douglas Fairbanks

#38. Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.

Groucho Marx