Tombstones Quotes

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

— Vladimir Lenin

Tombstones read RIP cause it's pieces they rest in

— Earl Sweatshirt

Tombstones don't talk back.

— Leland Chapman

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Anonymous

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

— B.C. Johnson

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

— Jacob M. Appel

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

— John R. Erickson

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

— Robert Genn

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

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

— Fiona Druce

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

— Susan Hubbard

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the…

— Dennis Flanagan

“When I look at these stiffs by the fire, I am looking at a graveyard. There is hardly room to move between…

— Tom Kromer

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

— Paul Eldridge

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about…

— Shannon Alder

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went.…

— Jon Taffer

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or…

— Hoyt Axton

“Now we lie here, a decapitated generation, our child-like names vanishing on tombstones, can't you see? Once there was Rock 'n' Roll,…

— Laura Gentile

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

— G.K. Chesterton

“The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to…

— Barbara Quick

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting…

— Charles Dickens

“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs --…

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Franz Kafka

“tombstones! What kind of McFadden would I be if I turned away from 'em. My Grandad an' pa would shed a tear…

— Randolph Lalonde

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

— Tana French

“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface…

— Rupert Thomson

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was "showing off," so I put in…

— Bram Stoker

“My mother’s family is passionate about visiting and cleaning the graves of their deceased. Once a year, the Peeks and the Nolens…

— Pat Conroy

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

— 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…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.”

— Barbara Delinsky

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

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

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I went home to show them they was wrong. All that I found was two tombstones.

— Lynyrd Skynyrd

“We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been…

— Amy Plum

I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was…

— Angela Stanton-King