Tombstone Inscription Quotes

#1. What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

Anton Chekhov

#2. This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

Bernard Ramm

#4. Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#5. In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

Miriam Toews

#6. Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

John Keats

#7. Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Josh Bernstein

#8. We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff.

Huey Newton

#9. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. You are sick not weak. It is okay to be depressed.

Kevin Breel

#11. I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Jack White

#12. There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Confucius

#13. Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

Humphry Osmond

#15. I do not want any inscription on my tombstone. A blank stone, because what I would like to leave behind me is the sentiment of a great mystery.

Philippe Auclair

#16. My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

Dave Eggers

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

Larry McMurtry

#18. Manipulated, one manipulates others.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

Douglas Adams