If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.' — Sara Parkin Copy Share Image
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
The first character that will be on my epitaph is Monisha from 'Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai.' — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
The epitaph wrote on the tomb of illegitimate child I'm resultant with them forgetten social recognition, which is strongly opposed that to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent… — Will Rogers 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
“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
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
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
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
“ The Voyager We are all lonely voyagers sailing on life's ebb tide, To a far off place were all stripling warriors… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison 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
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
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed… — Diophantus Copy Share Image
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!" — Alexander MacLaren 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
“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
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
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
...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
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
“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
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
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
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 beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He… — Sam Houston 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
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![“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83e/william-faulkner-306_aim_it-is-my-ambition-to-be-as-a-private-ind_349290.jpg)
![“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/quotes/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/quotes/img-quotes/7da/simonides-61471_300_o-stranger-send-the-news-home-to-the-peo_737958.jpg)
