Tombstone Quotes - Page 5

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Memorial, Dying

  The Waves (1931)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Years, Space, Russia

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

  Alan Dershowitz

  Boring, Satisfying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

  Ann Richards

  House, Want, Clean

  "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Hate, Stories, Mysterious

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series”, p.158, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Kids

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