Tombstone Quotes
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or if you die
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.