Noun
A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWrite on my gravestone ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. Eckhart Tolle
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'. Eoin Colfer
Don't you start. It's bad enough that one of us feels he could have done more. We're human, Campion-that's all it boils down to. Human and not nearly as clever as we thought we were when it counted. End of story. When they put up the gravestone for our species, that'll be the epitaph. Alastair Reynolds
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Al Purdy
A gravestone cannot be used for grinding. African Proverb