Tombstone Quotes - Page 3

• I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

  Keanu Reeves

  Nightmare, Used

  "The inscrutable Mr. Reeves". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

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• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

  Orson Welles

  Want, Boat, Written

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• Man must endure his going hence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Endure

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• Do not save your loving speeches
  For your friends till they are dead;
  Do not write them on their tombstones,
  Speak them rather now instead.

  Anna Mickelson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

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• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, Iron, White

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

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• Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

  Dean Martin

  Song: Everybody Loves Somebody, Album: Collected Cool [3 CD + 1 DVD]

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• Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

  Carrie Nation

  Faith, Causes, Done

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• Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Spring, Rocks

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Wonder, Epitaph, Meetings

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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• Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

  Susan B. Anthony

  Justice Equality, Humanity, Liberty

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• Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

  Bob Dylan

  Pride, Poison, Weeping

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• Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sick, Written

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• The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

  Charles Dickens

  White, Snow, Church

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.375

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• That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

  Wyatt Earp

  Loyalty, Honor, Sacred

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• The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Soul, Planning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

  Allan Pinkerton

  Honesty, Crime, Foe

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Summer, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

  George Clooney

  Oscars, Winner, Great Things

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• Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

  Sarah Silverman

  Women, Games, Ranking

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.

  Marty Feldman

  Love, Laughter, Pain

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• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Fighting, Names

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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• The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Book, Body

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• I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Personality, Fool

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

  Bessie Smith

  Singing, World, Singers

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• A star on earth - a star in heaven.

  Karen Carpenter

  Stars, Heaven, Earth

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