Gravestone Quotes

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

The dead only knows their world.

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.(from "Gratitude")

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.