Monday, October 11, 2010

Tombstone Quotes

• Joy, joy forever! - My task is done - the gates are passed and heaven is won. Moore
• Say not in grief: "He is no more", but live in thankfulness that he was. Hebrew Proverb
• Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. Eskimo legend
• He who has hope has everything. Arabian Proverb
• If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. Unknown
•If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo
• Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. Seneca
• Let no one weep for me or celebrate my funeral with mourning, for I still live as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
• I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller
• A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come. Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Tagore
• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
• They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill whatever dies. William Penn
• Death came with friendly care; the opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it lossom there. Samuel Taylor
• Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. Shelley
• If God hath made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found! James Montgomery
• Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach
• The heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee. St. Augustine
• Knowledge by suffering entereth, and life is perfected by death. Elizabeth Barret Browning
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Moore
• I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared, for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill
• Good friend, for Jesus´ sake forbeare to dig the dust enclosed here! Blest be ye man that spares thes stones and curst be he that moues my bones. - William Shakespeare
• Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark. Anonymous
• Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass. Chuck T. Falcon
• Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. David Searls

• Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star. L.M. Child

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