Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT."
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Tombstone
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Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"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.'"
Dean Martin
Singer
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by"
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"Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange"
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"The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing."
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"The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know."
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"Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual.""
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"My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'"
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"Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time."
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"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"She did it the hard way."
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"At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution."
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"The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'"
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"In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'"
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"The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty."
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"Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!"
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"Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green."
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"Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it."
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"He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone."
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"Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'"
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"The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees."
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"Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick."
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