Ancient greek Quote by 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 slip away…

— Barbara Quick

“The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the…

— Madeline Miller

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“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

“The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

“With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have…

— James Dickey

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

— Edmund Burke

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

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

— Franz Kafka

“For Earth is but a tombstone”

— Lord Byron