Tombstone Quotes

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: 'He died an unbeliever.’

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

It is hereby declared unlawful to carry in the hand or upon the person or otherwise any deadly weapon within the limits of said city of Tombstone, without first obtaining a permit in writing.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

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.

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

I got this grave yard woman.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

We live to love you more each day.

She did it the hard way.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.