Tombstone Quotes

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

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.'

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

In loving memory from the Family.

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.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

The Man of a Thousand Voices

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

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.'

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

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

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

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.