Tombstone Quotes - Page 2

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.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

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

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

She did it the hard way.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

A good character is the best tombstone.