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All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Thomas Ligotti
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You can keep your paper promisesand all your worldly treasures.But you cannot buy peace of mindor escape from the headstone garden.Lyrics from "Headstone Garden" by the Troubled Land Band at the Independence Day celebration 12 years after the impact that destroyed civilization.

Raymond Dean White, After the Dying Time
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As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up!I'm still alive! So treat me like it!Look at me!

Kazuya Minekura, Wild Adapter, Volume 5
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In the stillness of headstones,Darkness is my blanket.And forever is my song.In the arms if stone angels, I'm not afraid.Because finally and completely,I belong.

Jordan Dane, In the Arms of Stone Angels
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

Richard Puz, The Carolinian
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan
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Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word ‘lubricant’ on our headstone.

Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
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The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

L.J. Smith, Bloodlust
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They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.

Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa
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