Tombstone Quotes - Page 3

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

I don't get no respect

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

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!

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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.'

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'

In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.