Top 25 Headstone Quotes of 29

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.'

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

Tombstone, Names, Headstone

Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

William Blake

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Headstone

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

Spike Milligan

Headstone, Ill

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Saint Francis de Sales

Giving, Headstone, Eternal Life

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

Tombstone, Headstone, Buried

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

William Wordsworth

Death, Memories, Headstone

William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

To live in the hearts of others is not to die

Thomas Campbell

Heart, Headstone, Gravestone

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

Phil Collins

Air, Tonight, Headstone

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Francis Beaumont

Heaven, Headstone, Mercy

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

Killah Priest

Lasts, Firsts, Headstone

Song: B.I.B.L.E, Album: Heavy Mental

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Headstone, Gravestone

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.33, Enhanced Media Publishing

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

William Cowper

Headstone, Mercy, Shows

William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.287

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Saint Augustine

Jesus, Headstone, Heavy

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1873). “On the Trinity”, p.370, Aeterna Press

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dream, Memorial, Headstone

'Adonais' (1821) st. 39

Sleep, my little one, sleep.

Padraig Harrington

Sleep, Littles, Headstone

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Oliver Lodge

Adventure, Memorial, Headstone

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Steve Berry

Headstone, Gravestone, Ends

Steve Berry (2004). “The Romanov Prophecy”, p.279, Ballantine Books

To know her was to love her.

Samuel Rogers

Love, Short Love, Headstone

Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.144

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Robert Southey

World, Weight, Headstone

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music, Headstone, Exquisite

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline (Annotated Student's Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

Weight, Headstone, Remember

Twitter post from Jun 09, 2009

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Rudyard Kipling

Memorial, Headstone, Gravestone

Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4626, e-artnow