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  • Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  • Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

    Past   Memorial   Safe  
    James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics
  • Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

    Bulletin, Volume 8, Issues 11-18, p. 69,
  • This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

    Lying   Heart   Names  
    Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.
  • Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

    Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4626, e-artnow
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Ashes   Want  
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • To live in the hearts of others is not to die

  • How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

    People   Funeral   Might  
  • In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

    Sad   Sympathy   Stars  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria
  • [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

  • If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

  • Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

    Stars   Twilight   Night  
    Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)
  • And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

    Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)
  • Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

    "Patrick Stump: 'I’m Not in Fall Out Boy'" by William Goodman, www.spin.com. February 3, 2010.
  • The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

    Fall   World   Lasts  
  • And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]
  • Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

    Life   Tombstone   Eye  
    "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.
  • I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, 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.

    Tombstone   Book   Coffee  
    "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.
  • 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.

  • The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

    Song: B.I.B.L.E, Album: Heavy Mental
  • Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

  • When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

    Reading   Men   Waiting  
    "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.
  • Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

    Death   Lying   Home  
    Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.
  • I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

    Tombstone   Men   Roger  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

  • Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

    Music   Memories   Voice  
    'To - : One word is too often profaned'
  • I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

    "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994.
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