Epitaph Quotes

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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.'

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

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

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.

Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."

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

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

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.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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.'

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

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.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

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

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

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

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?