Tombstone Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• ...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Simple, Men, Born

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.75, Booklassic

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

  Sylvia Plath

  Flames, Lotuses, Golden

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• But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

  Ian Fleming

  Father, Heart, Men

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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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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• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Silly

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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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• The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Asteroids, Chance

  "We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

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• To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

  Rita Hayworth

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Companionship

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• I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'

  Robert Brunner

  Lying, Guy, Sometimes

  "An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992" by Max Chafkin, www.fastcodesign.com. September 03, 2013.

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• A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

  Oliver Hardy

  Laughter, Joy, Genius

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• Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

  Henry James

  Country, Sea, Two

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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tragedy, Triumph, Towers

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  People, 30th Birthday, Great Men

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• Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Names, Ideas, Two

  Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

  A. C. Green

  Kids, Dying, Causes

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• Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Virginia

  Epitaph (1826) on Jefferson's gravestone at his home, Monticello, at Charlottesville, Va.

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• On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Someday

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• I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

  Ann Richards

  Thinking, Government, House

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

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