Gravestone Quotes
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“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
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“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”
― Way Station
― Way Station
“The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
― Partials
― Partials
“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
“Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer)
(from "Gratitude")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry (Green Integer)
“I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness.”
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“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]”
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[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]”
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“A fulfilled life doesn’t point to the number of years, awards, wealth and followers someone amassed for himself, but the number of faces that smiled because of him.”
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“No one ever said you had to pretend everything was ok. Grief means we loved fiercely. And if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best life." Hermes to Persephone.”
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“In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.”
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“He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.”
― Dawn Rising
― Dawn Rising
“If most of us want good closing images, we have to change society. If we must watch our life over and over again forever on the day we die then we need our own revolution, starting from within. Or we’ll be in hell. Hell is yourself. Or rather hell is watching your shit life being replayed for eternity. Everyone should place the movie of their life on an LCD screen built into the headstone of their grave, and set on an infinite loop. Then anyone who stops by the grave to look at your movie will soon know whether you’ve gone to heaven or hell.”
― The Last Bling King
― The Last Bling King
“Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone.”
― Winter Lost
― Winter Lost
“[P]ray thee Pilgrim for the noble souls of Artur and Gwenhwyfawr, united once more here in peace. First King of all Great Britain. First faithful servant of the Vicar of Christ and Universal Church. Let all men who seek rule, be measured according to thy virtue.”
― Mercia
― Mercia
“Poems and epitaphs are but stuff,
Here lies Bob Barras and that's enough.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
Here lies Bob Barras and that's enough.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
“Here I lie at the Chapel door,
Here lie I because I'm poor,
The farther in the more you'l pay,
Here lie I as warm as they.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
Here lie I because I'm poor,
The farther in the more you'l pay,
Here lie I as warm as they.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
“Now I am dead and laid in my grave
And that my bones are rotten,
By this shall I remembered be,
Or else I am forgotten.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
And that my bones are rotten,
By this shall I remembered be,
Or else I am forgotten.”
― TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]
“And afterwards the People did wander over that Country of Silence, and made visit and honour to their Ancestors, if such were deserving.”
― The Night Land
― The Night Land
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