Tombstone Quotes

• You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

  Wyatt Earp

  Bad Ass, Ass, Western Movie

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• There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.

  Kevin Welch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

  Rosario Dawson

  Safe, Want, You Only Live Once

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• I have not yet begun to defile myself.

  Doc Holliday

  Nonsense

  "Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

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• I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Ems, Action

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• Look at all the stars. You look up and you think,
  'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

  Morgan Earp

  Stars, Thinking, Looks

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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Heart

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• Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

  Vladimir Lenin

  Pigeons, Revolutionary

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• I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

  David Brenner

  Want, Ifs, Jokes

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• My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Death, Witty

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• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

  Doc Holliday

  Thinking, Bears, My Friends

  "Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

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• My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

  George Carlin

  Motivational, Inspiring, Successful

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• Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Heart, Hatred

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• The Man of a Thousand Voices

  Mel Blanc

  Men, Voice, He Man

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• Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

  Billy Sunday

  Finals, Behind You, Headstone

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

  William Shatner

  Air, Religion, Ashes

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• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Eye, Cold

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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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

  Headstone, Buried, Feels

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• Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Doe, Looks, Satire

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.216

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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

  Heart, Numbers, Different

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Flower, Long Ago, Practice

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

  John Keats

  Death, Suicide, War

  Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

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