Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

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.

David Byrne

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

Evan Rachel Wood

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.

Eva Gabor

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

Nick Mason

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, 'I'm not entirely sure the band's over.'

Nicholas Sparks

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

Paul Eldridge

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Giacomo Casanova

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Ken Wilber

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

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Keanu Reeves

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

Hunter S. Thompson

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Jayne Mansfield

We live to love you more each day.

Franco Nero

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Ian Fleming

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'.

Ernie Kovacs

Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.

Erma Bombeck

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

George Orwell

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Jefferson Davis

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

Jefferson Davis

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

George Carlin

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

Frederick Buechner

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.

Jean Paul

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.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Michael Crichton

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Mehmet Oz

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.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Oscar Wilde

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

P. G. Wodehouse

...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.