Courage Quote by Corra May Harris

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like…

— Ross Perot

“he didn’t believe much in funerals—or in massive monuments to the dead, caskets worth thousands and thousands of dollars or any other such thing.”

— Heather Graham

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at…

— Oscar Wilde

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

— Emily Bronte

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

— Thomas Paine

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

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

— Varg Vikernes

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

I'm so sick of this tombstone mentality.

— Shinedown

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

— Hannah Whitall Smith