Headstone Quotes - Page 5

• Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1259, Delphi Classics

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• Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

  A. E. Housman

  Flower, Farewell, Heart

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Believe, Expression, People

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

  Phil Collins

  Air, Tonight, Died

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

  David Byrne

  Tombstone, Lying, Suits

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• You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up!
  I'm still alive! So treat me like it!
  Look at me!

  Kazuya Minekura

  Looks, Alive, Look Up

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• I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

  Mehmet Oz

  Tombstone, Heart, Numbers

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• The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

  Robert Southey

  World, Weight, Eternity

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• Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Space, Void, Smallest

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Life, by J. Forster”, p.91

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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

  Tombstone, Lying, Thinking

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

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• No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than Himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Jesus, Greatness, Remembrance

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• Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Dream, Jesus, Joy

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• Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

  Gerard Majella

  Giving, Support, Use

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• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  Yul Brynner

  Tombstone, Buried, Feels

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• The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Giving, Heaven

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