Tombstone Quotes

• You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

  Wyatt Earp

  Bad Ass, Ass, Western Movie

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• There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.

  Kevin Welch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Rosario Dawson

  Safe, Want, You Only Live Once

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• I have not yet begun to defile myself.

  Doc Holliday

  Nonsense

  "Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

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

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Ems, Action

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• Look at all the stars. You look up and you think,
  'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

  Morgan Earp

  Stars, Thinking, Looks

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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Heart

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• Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

  Vladimir Lenin

  Pigeons, Revolutionary

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

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Death, Witty

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• I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

  David Brenner

  Want, Ifs, Jokes

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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

  Franco Nero

  Love Is, Years, Headstone

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• Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ravens, Nevermore

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Organization, Political, Civil War

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

  David Byrne

  Lying, Suits, Headstone

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

  Earl Weaver

  Writing, Loser, Headstone

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

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Few Words, Dignity, Headstone

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• She did it the hard way.

  Bette Davis

  Way, Gravestone, Epitaph

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Long, Broken

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, Cutting, Dying

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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

  Mort Sahl

  Men, Roger, Gravestone

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

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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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

  Artist, Names, Way

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

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