Epitaph Quotes · Page 2

“Death is a debt to Nature due Which we have paid and so must you.”

— Anonymous

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

— Studs Terkel

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Alexander Akyna

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

— Thomas Campbell

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Dorothy Parker

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

— Studs Terkel

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

— Katherine Alice Applegate

Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.

— Chad Gilbert

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

— Bob Dylan

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

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

“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

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

— Isaac Newton

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors…

— George Sutherland

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to…

— James Nicoll

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,…

— Joseph Addison

“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a…

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct…

— John Caudwell

They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good…

— William Faulkner

“The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the…

— Charles Wolfe

“Her close friends have gathered. Lord, ain't it a shame Grieving together Sharing the blame. But when she was dying Lord, we…

— Kris Kristofferson

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Richard Bartle

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

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

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

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

— Gloria Allred

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

— Oliver Lodge

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Jeaniene Frost

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

— Paul Washer

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Samuel Johnson

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

— John Dryden