Top 100 Tombstone Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues
Bob Dylan
#4. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
#5. 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
#6. I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
Keanu Reeves
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'
Roger Goodell
#10. My current verdict would be: Crazy Eyes. Nice Ass."
"I think I want that on my tombstone.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
Nigel Barker
#15. You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'
Rosario Dawson
#16. 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
#17. As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone
Stephen King
#18. 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
#19. I want you to put 'He didn't want to ride the damn horse' on my tombstone.
Abigail Roux
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.
William Shatner
#24. 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
#25. I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
Charles Lamb
#26. 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
#27. Eve: "We nearly got killed over ice cream."
Shane: "Another thing I don't want on my tombstone."
Claire: "You have others?"
Shane: "*first finger* I thought it wasn't loaded. *second finger* Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. *third finger* Killed over ice cream.
Rachel Caine
#28. I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
#29. How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
Bill Vaughan
#30. 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
#31. Baby one night somebody
Going to strike a match on a tombstone
And read your name.
Frank Stanford
#32. I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.
Andy Warhol
#33. Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#34. Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#35. They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
Michael Crichton
#36. 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
#37. If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
Nicholas Sparks
#38. That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.
Lee Strobel
#39. What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.
Peter Duncan
#41. I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Ted Turner
#42. Just follow my lead,' I said. 'It'll be fun.'
'Please,' Sam begged, 'don't let those words be carved on my tombstone.
Rick Riordan
#43. If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.
Jefferson Davis
#44. Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Regina Brett
#45. I loved Stand By Me. I loved Tombstone. Give men a little credit. Maybe we'll be able to humanize women more and see more of their depth as people.
Evan Rachel Wood
#46. I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
Douglas Coupland
#47. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.
Anthony Liccione
#48. If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
Will Rogers
#49. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
J.D. Salinger
#50. Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!
Keith Green
#51. Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
Dara Horn
#52. Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.
George Clooney
#53. She could just imagine, all her friends and family mourning around her grave. The tombstone would read Kari Wagner, Died of Sheer Stupidity.
It would be almost as bad to have her grave marker read Died of Terminal Bedroom Boredom.
Cherise Sinclair
#54. Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water.
Malak El Halabi
#55. You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.
Peter Walsh
#56. My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
Margaret Smith
#57. No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Corra May Harris
#58. When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner
#59. On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver
#60. On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial ...
Ken Wilber
#61. I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.
Steve Maraboli
#62. All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
Bertrand Russell
#63. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".
Kyle Idleman
#64. Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
Soren Kierkegaard
#65. Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.
Franco Nero
#66. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
Stefan Molyneux
#67. Interviewer: What do you want your tombstone to say? Reply: I was hoping for a pyramid.
Eldon Farrell
#68. It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But
Cherie Priest
#69. I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph
Elif Batuman
#70. It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.
Diana Gabaldon
#71. My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'
George Carlin
#72. When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.
Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#73. Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God
William Hersey Davis
#74. 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
#75. He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY
Eli Coppola
#76. I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.
David Foster Wallace
#77. 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
#78. I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
Katherine Dunham
#79. the tombstone sky cried down unending tears of rain all around
Shaun Harbinger
#80. I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.
Sylvia Plath
#81. I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
Ali Smith
#82. The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
Mary Wilson Little
#84. The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
Jean Paul
#85. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man ... and dead.
Louis L'Amour
#86. On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE
Will Durant
#87. I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
Dorothy Parker
#88. Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.
Niko Stoifberg
#89. Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
Adam Selzer
#90. I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.
Mehmet Oz
#91. Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey De Vere
#92. She tried to compose herself then, with several deep breaths. I gave her as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. R.I.P, Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry.
Lia Habel
#93. My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.
Tom Bosley
#94. On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'
Rita Rudner
#95. My tombstone is going to say: 'Born: Yes. Died: Yes.
Rita Mae Brown
#96. There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.
Kevin Welch
#97. Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.
Scott Nicholson
#98. I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
James Joyce
#99. Before I die, I want to change my name to "Here," so that my tombstone could simply read, "Here lies." And then people who knew me could walk by, shake their head, and say, "Ain't that the truth.
Jarod Kintz
#100. Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As
Charles Dickens
