Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
“Tombstones grew like ragged, rotting teeth from the mushy grass-covered ground.” — Fiona Druce Copy Share Image
“Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.” — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'? — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
I went home to show them they was wrong. All that I found was two tombstones. — Lynyrd Skynyrd Copy Share Image
“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“tombstones! What kind of McFadden would I be if I turned away from 'em. My Grandad an' pa would shed a tear… — Randolph Lalonde Copy Share Image
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“Death continues to stalk the streets, stealing the souls of our children as they sleep. We're running out of fingers to close… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The graveyard was at the top of the hill. It looked over all of the town. The town was hills - hills… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was "showing off," so I put in… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone.” — B.C. Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of. — John R. Erickson Copy Share Image
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“When I look at these stiffs by the fire, I am looking at a graveyard. There is hardly room to move between… — Tom Kromer Copy Share Image
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
