The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as…

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

— Julian Jaynes

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

— Sebastian Faulks

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

— Hannah Whitall Smith

“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and…

— Paul Eldridge

“Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.”

— Susan Hubbard

“Tombstones grew like ragged, rotting teeth from the mushy grass-covered ground.”

— Fiona Druce

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“The graveyard was at the top of the hill. It looked over all of the town. The town was hills - hills that issued…

— Ray Bradbury

“I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. I know that…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for…

— Franz Kafka

“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite…

— G.K. Chesterton

We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember,…

— Tana French

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

— Jacob M. Appel