An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
“No one gets out of this life alive. So leave a footprint of your choice. You are writing your epitaph. You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Warm summer sun, shine friendly here Warm western wind, blow kindly here; Green sod above, rest light, rest light, Good-night, Annette! Sweetheart,… — robert richardson Copy Share Image
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“In memory of Robert Harris, sometime Major-General of His Majesty's forces before Plymouth, who was buried hereunder the 29th day of June… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
“The epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave… — Simonides Copy Share Image
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read.… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“Stop ye travellers as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, soon you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
![“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [ Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died ]” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4cb/johannes-kepler-4278_earth_i-used-to-measure-the-skies-now-i-measur_2088095.jpg)
![“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed. Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. [Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]” quote by Simonides](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7da/simonides-61471_300_o-stranger-send-the-news-home-to-the-peo_737958.jpg)
