Quote by Barbara Quick

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

— Shannon Alder

“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.”

— Marina Nemat

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of…

— Thomm Quackenbush

When my time is over, lying in my grave Written on my tombstone, I want it to say This man was a legend, a…

— Mars Mavis Paul John

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

— Tom Kromer

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Tombstones don't talk back.

— Leland Chapman

“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should…

— Andrei Codrescu

“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

“All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is…

— James Lee Burke