Headstone Quotes - Page 4

• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

  Cicely Tyson

  Life, Women, Adversity

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

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• His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kings, Men, Justice

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

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• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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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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• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

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

  Rosario Dawson

  Tombstone, Safe, Want

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• We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

  William Kent Krueger

  Heart, Men, Air

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tombstone, Few Words, Dignity

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• If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

  Rebecca West

  Time, Race, Ideas

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

  Franco Nero

  Tombstone, Love Is, Years

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• Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Drunk, Joy

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• 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

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Believe, Expression, People

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• Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1259, Delphi Classics

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