Top 84 Gravestone Quotes
#1. They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.
Wen Spencer
#2. You always have a lot going on Harper. It's like your thing. When you die in a hundred years, they'll probably write on your gravestone, 'Here lies Harper Price-Dang it, She Still had Stuff To Do!
Rachel Hawkins
#3. 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
Kristin Cashore
#4. Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. "Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.
Brooklyn Ann
#6. What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?
Simon Munnery
#7. I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]
Gail Borden
#8. In my life are many windows
and many graves.
Sometimes they exchange
roles:
then a window is closed forever,
then by way of a gravestone
I can see
very far.
(Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)
Yehuda Amichai
#9. There must have been a real mess on the tracks,' Lorna said, 'They shut down the F train line for a whole two hours for you. Two hours! And in rush hour!'
My final achievement. Man, I hoped Mom was getting that put on my gravestone. Here lies Charlotte Feldman. She pissed off commuters. A lot.
Suzy Cox
#10. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.
Michel Houellebecq
#11. Anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.
Michael Light
#12. On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
Tom Waits
#13. Did Errol ever know that his life would be just a dash on a gravestone? That everything he did and all the food he ate and the car trips he took and the kisses he gave would all end up as a line on a rock? In a park with a whole lot of strangers?
Brooke Davis
#14. So when the big companies come in they buy the name of the company, they pay for the funeral directors to stay on, they create the appearance of diversity. But that is merely the tip of the gravestone. In reality, they are as local as Burger King.
Neil Gaiman
#15. I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"
Tim Burton
#16. Sehun love Kai." he brushed his fingers on the gravestone. "Kai love Sehun."
"Sooooo much, Sehun...
FishMeAnEXo
#17. Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do ...
George R R Martin
#18. But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. 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.'
Gary Vaynerchuk
#21. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
#22. When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
Ian McKellen
#23. How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
Lawrence Fagg
#24. Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone.
Philip K. Dick
#25. Harper said, "But Snuffleupagus was real."
"That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.
Joe Hill
#26. There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.
Eoin Colfer
#27. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
Walter Tevis
#28. The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers.
Haruki Murakami
#29. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#30. 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'.
John Adams
#31. I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness
Maggie Nelson
#32. These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.
Anne Lamott
#33. Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
Patrick Stump
#34. If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
D. B. Sweeney
#35. Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
Dick Van Dyke
#36. 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.
Tom Peters
#37. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Let love become the gravestone
That lies upon my life.
Anna Akhmatova
#39. [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
Barbara Walters
#40. 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
#41. Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
Edward Abbey
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.
Beth Moore
#45. You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
Bette Davis
#46. 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
#47. I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'
Jesse Ventura
#48. 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
#49. One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,
Ryan Graudin
#54. 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
#55. They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.
Jace Herondale
#56. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.
John Twelve Hawks
#57. My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
Damon Lindelof
#58. I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.
Cassandra Clare
#59. As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.
Mary Roach
#60. When you die in a hundred years, they'll probably write on your gravestone, 'Here Lies Harper Price - Damn It, She Still Had Stuff to Do!
Rachel Hawkins
#61. On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
Cilla Black
#62. 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.
Patricia Briggs
#63. 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?
Ryan Lilly
#64. The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.
Dean F. Wilson
#66. Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker.
Come see the freak named after his deceased father.
Come see the prince who wants to abdicate his throne.
Come see the son whose name is carved on a gravestone.
Sherman Alexie
#67. I think of myself as a comforter. That's what i want on my gravestone.
Charlie Price
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Al Purdy
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
Ian McKellen
#75. He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.
Jan Karon
#76. Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
Rudyard Kipling
#77. Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
Clifford D. Simak
#78. 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.
Soseki Natsume
#79. In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude")
Visar Zhiti
#81. 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.
Sheri Webber
#82. The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.
Dan Wells
