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Death is a debt to Nature due
Which 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

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

[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

Every day is Sunday" - that wouldn't make a bad epitaph, would it? — Julian Barnes

Curiosity never killed this cat' - that's what I'd like as my epitaph — Studs Terkel

Actually not bad at all. Tastes minty, very refreshing."
"A worthy epitaph," said Jean — Scott Lynch

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'. — Marie Brennan

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

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. — Billy Sunday

[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

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me. — Dorothy Parker

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. — Peter Duncan

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him. — Tom Peters

My Own Epitaph
Life'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

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. — H.L. Mencken

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

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

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

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn

Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written. — Katherine Applegate

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men. — Idries Shah

Models of style: the swearword, the telegram, the epitaph. — Cioran

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

Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia. — W.C. Fields

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH. — Paul Washer

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

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly! — Helme Heine

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat. — Studs Terkel

Poet: gardener of epitaphs. — Octavio Paz

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead. — Mark Twain

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph. — Julie Andrews Edwards

I pledge no fudge of compromise', said Arthur Scargill, 'and no carrots of redundancy'. That would make a nice epitaph for him. 'He pledged no fudge'. — Tony Benn

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan

[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

I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like. — Will Rogers

And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster. — Annie Barrows

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

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — T. S. Eliot

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave. — Alan Arkin

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye. — George S. Kaufman

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. — Oswald Mosley

He [Harpo] loved life and lived it joyously and deeply and that's about as good an epitaph as anyone can have. — Groucho Marx