Gravestone Quotes

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

For they can conquer who believe they can.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, 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.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.