Tombstone Quotes

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

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.

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.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.