Gravestone Quotes

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

“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one?…

— Ryan Lilly

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

— Mark Twain

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

— Barbara Walters

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Margaret Atwood

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

— Patrick Stump

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

— Tom Waits

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically…

— Andy Andrews

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for…

— David Ives

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own…

— Carlos Fuentes

“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is…

— Rob Bignell

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other…

— Tom Peters

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every…

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Yukio Mishima

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

— William Shakespeare

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell.…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the…

— Eoin Colfer

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

— Visar Zhiti

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Will Rogers