Headstone Quotes - Page 3

• Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Inspiring, Voyages

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.400, Northwestern University Press

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• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• 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

  Tombstone, Thinking, Government

  "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.

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• The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Men, Years

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• 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

  Tombstone, Names, Figments

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

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• Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
  Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Angel, Peaceful

  "The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings".

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• Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Hands, Breathing

  'The Higher Pantheism' (1869)

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Faces

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• Row after row with strict impunity
  The headstones yield their names to the element,
  The wind whirrs without recollection.

  Allen Tate

  Wind, Names, Yield

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When I remember you, Randy, I'm going to smile, not cry. You're a part of me. One of the best parts. I just wanted to tell you that." She stopp up, brushing the headstone once more. "And if you meet someone called Giselda," she whispered, "tell her she's still part of Spade, too. A beautiful part. Please thank her for that.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Beautiful, Remember You, Remembers You

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• 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

  Tombstone, Artist, Names

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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

  Ali Smith

  Tombstone, Want, Wanted

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• When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

  Stephanie Klein

  Weight, Remember, Dies

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2009

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• The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
  The headstones thicken along the way;
  And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
  For those who walk with us day by day.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Night, Stronger

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.602, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Giving Up, Tombstone, Answers

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• Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

  Eric Church

  Brother, Long, Lines

  Song: Sinners Like Me, Album: Sinners Like Me, 2006

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• Sleep, my little one, sleep.

  Padraig Harrington

  Sleep, Littles

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• By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving, Eternal Life, Wells

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• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Children bring their own love with them when they come.

  Jean Ingelow

  Children

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.17

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

  Laurie Holden

  Tombstone, Want, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Earl Weaver

  Tombstone, Writing, Loser

  "Earl Weaver" by Tom Verducci, www.si.com. July 13, 2009.

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