This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred…

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

“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

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

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

— B.C. Johnson

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

— 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. (from "Gratitude")”

— Visar Zhiti

“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

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

— Stephenie Meyer

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

— Emile Zola

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

— Dan Wells

“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

“….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

“the moonbeams cast eerie shadows across the gravestones. A group of hooded figures encircled a stone, like specters presiding over their dead. Though”

— Anita Estes