Best Tombstone Words
154 Tombstone quotes by 137 unique authors
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
— Eartha Kitt
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I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
— Keanu Reeves
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in…
— Billy Sunday
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
— Ted Turner
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The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
— Andy Warhol
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't…
— Andy Warhol
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
— Earl Weaver
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''
— Orson Welles
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Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy…
— Regina Brett
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Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And…
— James K. Morrow
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On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
— Dorothy Parker
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I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his…
— Sylvia Plath
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Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
— Erma Bombeck
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
— Bob Dylan
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We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim,…
— Tana French
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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab…
— Ian Fleming
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Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded,"…
— Rachel Caine
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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a…
— Brandon Mull
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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
— William Butler Yeats
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They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
— Michael Crichton
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