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Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. -- Thomas Browne
Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones. -- Visar Zhiti
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. -- Al Purdy
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. -- Walter Tevis
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,' -- Ian Mckellen
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.' -- Dick Van Dyke
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone. -- Lawrence Fagg
What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what? -- Simon Munnery
The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. -- Barbara Walters
...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work. -- Beth Moore
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. -- Michael Light
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. -- Wendell Phillips
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.' -- Steve Blank
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him. -- Tom Peters
I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced. -- Anne Lamott
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out. -- Marilyn Manson
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did. -- Betty Friedan
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'. -- Eoin Colfer
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? -- Margaret Atwood
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. -- Eckhart Tolle
O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. -- Alice Munro
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised. -- Yukio Mishima
Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone. -- John C. McGinley
My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He? -- Damon Lindelof
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. -- Al Purdy
On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick." -- Tom Waits
I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' -- Jesse Ventura
Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith. -- Patrick Stump
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. -- John Twelve Hawks
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.' -- Bette Davis
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'. -- Cilla Black
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. -- Edward Abbey
Write on my gravestone Infidel, Traitor, infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people -- Wendell Phillips
When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements. -- Ian Mckellen
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. -- Carlos Fuentes
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references" -- Tim Burton
You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'. -- John Adams
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I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.' -- Doug Harvey
Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon -- Kristin Cashore
The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers." -- Haruki Murakami
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.' -- Gary Vaynerchuk

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