Epitaph Quotes

“Excuse my dust.”

— Dorothy Parker

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

— Dorothy Parker

She did it the hard way.

— Bette Davis

“Live your epitaph”

— Zoe Weil

“My Epitaph: THIS is Plan B”

— Oran Kangas

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ubi me prejaka reč.”

— Branko Miljković

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

— Samuel Johnson

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

— Alan Arkin

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

— Dorothy Parker

“Anne Mc Caffrey has gone between”

— Susan Havens

If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph

— David Glaser

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

— Mark Twain

“The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.”

— Elaine Radley

“The future isn't carved in stone, only your epitaph.”

— Paula Wall

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the…

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Jeaniene Frost

“Death Notice, … “He was offended with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817”

— Boston Recorder

“Thinking about how you want to be remembered can influence how you live today.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

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

— Paul Washer

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy…

— Nick Castle

“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

“[Dust] Agatha Morley all her life grumbled at dust like a good wife ... Six feet under the earth she lies with…

— Sydney King Russell

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— William Shakespeare

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

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other…

— Tom Peters

When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of…

— Chris Collins

“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

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

— Richard Bartle

“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

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

— Robert Frost

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

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

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

“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

The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living…

— Ludwig von Mises