Tombstone Quotes - Page 7

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

  Laurie Holden

  Want, Actresses, Headstone

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

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• The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

  Roger Goodell

  Parent, Goes On, Proud

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• My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

  Tom Bosley

  Lying, Thinking, Wife

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

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• I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Bottom

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• Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.

  Groucho Marx

  Girl, Lying, Ugly

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• I don't get no respect

  Rodney Dangerfield

  No Respect

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 June 1970

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• If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Memories, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Cutting, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2645, Delphi Classics

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• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

  Peg Bracken

  Long, People, Sunrise

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Party, Government, Moral Leadership

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• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

  Bill Vaughan

  Names, Two, Lasts

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• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  Bernard Ramm

  Cutting, Funeral, Inscriptions

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• All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Alive, Lasts

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.190, Routledge

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• A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Bed, Easy

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.

  Scott Nicholson

  Names, Numbers, Space

  Scott Nicholson (2010). “Kiss Me or Die: A Psychological Thriller”, p.4, Haunted Computer Books

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• When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Kings, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.83

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• Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Heart, Joy, Here And There

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• My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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

  Sylvia Plath

  Flames, Lotuses, Golden

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• The Stone the Builders Rejected.

  Jack London

  Stones, Rejected, Builder

  Jack London (2014). “The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)”, p.42, BookRix

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

  Dorothy Parker

  Thinking, Giving, Shining

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• When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Church, Earth

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• Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

  Paul Eldridge

  Life, Death, Insanity

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