Epitaph Quotes · Page 3

“I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.”

— Julie Andrews

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'

— Ory Okolloh

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

— Mario Cuomo

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

— Thomas Campbell

“He died the way he lived: Expecting to finally start living.”

— Alexander Akyna

“I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

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

— Thornton Wilder

Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph

— Studs Terkel

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be…

— C. Walton Lillehei

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [ Alexander's tombstone epitaph ]”

— Alexander the Great

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

— Robert James Graves

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph…

— Pericles

“Epitaph “love had ten thousand flowers Bloomed on those cheeks, like an angel you came as haste to earth and Opened the…

— Nithin Purple

We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We…

— Chuck Comeau

“She'll take my breath, she'll take my bones, but she cannot have my epitaph. For if indeed I truly am a writer,…

— Anne Schilde

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and…

— Roger Zelazny

If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a…

— Steve Kluger

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the…

— Isaac Newton

“[ When asked what he wants for his tombstone epitaph ] Since I'm an atheist, and have no belief whatsoever in life…

— Richard Bartle

“I may have wept that any should have died Or missed their chance, or not have been their best, Or been their…

— Robert Frost

“ I have always known that you will visit my grave. I see myself as a small brown bird, perhaps a sparrow,…

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off…

— C. S. Lewis

“Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their…

— A.E. Housman

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come…

— Seneca the Younger

“It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron.…

— Jane Campion

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

— Henry David Thoreau

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

— Rudyard Kipling

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

— Dorothy Parker

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

— James Russell Lowell

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

— Gloria Allred

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

— Oliver Lodge

“My epitaph: He was fun while he lasted.”

— John Darrin