Tombstone Quotes - Page 5

• Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

  Regina Brett

  Hate, People, Funeral

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• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Sms, May, Next

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• The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

  James K. Morrow

  Book, Writing, Doors

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• On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motorcycle, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, College, Champion

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be.

  Tana French

  Determination, Thinking, Mind

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• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Ice Cream, Hands

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• I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.

  Brandon Mull

  Flying, Sound, Giants

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Flower, Garden, Reign

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• As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Father, Character

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7092, Delphi Classics

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• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Memorial, Dying

  The Waves (1931)

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• The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

  Jean Paul

  Reality, Hunting, Suffering

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, Hunting

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• I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

  Benjamin Rush

  Daughter, Son, America

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• My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Writing, Computer, Someday

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

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• The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, People, Funeral

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I loved Stand By Me. I loved Tombstone. Give men a little credit. Maybe we'll be able to humanize women more and see more of their depth as people.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Men, People, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Flames, Lotuses, Golden

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• Steel True, Blade Straight.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Steel, Blades

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, 30th Birthday, Great Men

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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tragedy, Triumph, Towers

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

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• I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'

  Robert Brunner

  Lying, Guy, Sometimes

  "An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992" by Max Chafkin, www.fastcodesign.com. September 03, 2013.

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• Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jobs, Blood, Years

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

  Ali Smith

  Want, Headstone, 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, Answers, Headstone

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