the moonbeams cast eerie shadows across the gravestones. A…

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.…

— Margaret Atwood

“He liked churchyards. The graves themselves, were, of course, important, being the final resting places for the earthly remains of people-real people just like…

— Charmian Hussey

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

— Dan Wells

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of…

— Will Rogers

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

— Emile Zola

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

— Stephenie Meyer

“In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that,…

— Yukio Mishima

“Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. (from "Gratitude")”

— Visar Zhiti

“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the…

— Yukio Mishima

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

— Visar Zhiti

“I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone.”

— B.C. Johnson

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails…

— Yukio Mishima

“The church was simply the former chapel of the castle, fronting upon its grass-grown court, which, however, was of generous enough width to have…

— Henry James

“This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names…

— Charlotte Brontë

“….two slate-colored gravestones settled at a slant into the lower corner of the field beside the lane. She could not read the names engraved…

— Gladys Hasty Carroll