Epitaph Quotes
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Death is a debt to Nature dueWhich we have paid and so must you. — Tombstone Epitaph In Tatamagouche Nova Scotia
We don't want any - " he began, and ought to have chosen his words better, because they were his epitaph. It
— Terry Pratchett
The future isn't carved in stone, only your epitaph.
— Paula Wall
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone - 'I didn't mean to startle her.
— Patricia Briggs
Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
— J.K. Rowling
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
— Rafael Sabatini
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[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
— Hedy Lamarr
I'm sorry. You went too far.'Lovely. What an epitaph. — Joanne Harris
Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph.
— Marty Rubin
Coelorum perrupit claustra.He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph] — William Herschel
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
— Paulo Coelho
All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
— Thomas Ligotti
I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
— Tobias Wolff
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
— J.K. Rowling
I didn't want my epitaph to be She Played It Safe.
— Amy Hill Hearth
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
— Robert Emmet
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
— Margrethe II Of Denmark
You with your veins full of night - you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus.
— Emil M. Cioran
Si monumentum requiris circumspice(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral] — Christopher Wren
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.
— Dan Pallotta
My epitaph: He was fun while he lasted.
— John Darrin
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
— Otto Von Bismarck
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
— Dorothy Parker
I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
— Nicole Krauss
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
— Johannes Kepler
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
— Henry David Thoreau
History: a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
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[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
— Dorothy Parker
My Own EpitaphLife's a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it. — John Gay
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
— Paul Newman
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
— Robert James Graves
Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.
— Charles Dickens
Reader one moment stop and think,That I am in eternity and you are on the brink. — Tombstone Epitaph In Perth Scotland
The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.
— Elaine Radley
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
— Dorothy Parker
I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: "See you soon
— Edouard Leve
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
— Bertrand Russell
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
— Benjamin Franklin
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
— Andrew Carnegie
No fear. A fitting epitaph, more curse than blessing, the truth of their very existence.
— Cindy Skaggs
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written.
— Katherine Applegate
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men. — Idries Shah
Take up the song; forget the epitaph.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
— William Shakespeare
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
— George Bernard Shaw
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
— Cyril Connolly
My Epitaph:THIS is Plan B — Oran Kangas
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
— Benito Mussolini
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
— Thomas Campbell
A man's character is best described in his epitaph
— Marilyn L. Rice
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
— Gloria Swanson
He ate what was set before him
— Robert A. Heinlein
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
— Irvin S. Cobb
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
— Mario Cuomo
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
— Sara Parkin
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder
Why waste a life in search of an epitaph? 'Fondly Remembered'. Who other than a halfwit has that chiselled above his head?
— Michael Dobbs
Live your epitaph
— Zoe Weil
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
— Octavio Paz
I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
— Bob Dylan
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[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.
— Gloria Allred
I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
— C. Walton Lillehei
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Here lies clever Trevor;Truth was not his friend.
He lied until the end;
Now, he'll lie forever. — Esther Spurrill Jones
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander's tombstone epitaph] — Alexander The Great
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
— George S. Kaufman
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