Quotes About Gravestone

In my life are many windows and many graves. Sometimes they exchange roles: then a window is closed forever, then by way of a gravestone I can see very far. (Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)

I was sure that on my gravestone, my epitaph would read, 'He came. He saw. And then he came again.

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.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

THE GREATER THE MONUMENT, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. ACHILLES, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—'I didn't mean to startle her.