Tombstones Quotes

• As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Character
  • Regarding
  • Tombstones

• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Resisting
  • Tolls
  • Iron Gate

• The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Cover
  • Sheets
  • Old Church

• I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Meetings
  • Epitaph
  • Tombstones