“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded. [Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]” — Gail Borden Copy Share Image
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone. — Lawrence Fagg Copy Share Image
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a… — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what? — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read.… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone; their clean hearts are soapstone. Their small sorrows are for children alone. And… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for… — Giles Tremlett Copy Share Image
Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image