Tombstone Quotes

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.
Charles Spurgeon

Good, Best, Character

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

Loser, Write, Lived

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.'
Andy Warhol

Thought, Actually, Name

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.'
Andy Warhol

Everything, Thought, Why

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

Angry, Looking, Uncle

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

Time, Learning, Diploma

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

Truth, Words, Few

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

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

Written, Died, Theory

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.
Billy Sunday

Live, Leave, Behind

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
Katherine Dunham

Words, She, Used

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.
Mehmet Oz

Done, Different, Head

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

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

Hope, Parents, Made

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
Ann Richards

Government, Saying, Remember

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.
Alastair Campbell

Great, Long, Friend

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'
Rosario Dawson

Live, Once, Read

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.
Laurie Holden

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

Wanted, She, Actually

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

Memory, Feet, Naked

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.
Doris Roberts

Give, She, Takes

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

Love, Left, Behind

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

Time, Lie, Same

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.
Tom Bosley

Wife, Here, Used

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.
Yul Brynner

Dead, Written, Arrived

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