Why waste a life in search of an epitaph? ‘Fondly…

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

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

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…

— Mickey Rooney

Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Paul Washer

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…

— Trent Reznor

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,…

— William Shakespeare

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin

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

— Studs Terkel

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

— Mark Twain

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.'

— Andy Warhol

"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…

— James Nicoll

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while…

— Mark Twain

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

— Jeaniene Frost

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz