Headstone Quotations

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Children bring their own love with them when they come.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Sleep, my little one, sleep.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

To know her was to love her.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.