The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds. - Anthony Liccione
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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'. - Andy Warhol
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander's tombstone epitaph] - Alexander the Great
What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. - Peter Duncan
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." - Katherine Dunham
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
poetry is the tombstone of experience,nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned - D.W.Metz
Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words. - Scott Nicholson
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". - Stefan Molyneux
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead. - Louis L'Amour