Epitaph Quotes · Page 3

“My epitaph: He was fun while he lasted.”

— John Darrin

History: a collection of epitaphs.

— Elbert Hubbard

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Dorothy Parker

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Gloria Allred

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

— Thomas Campbell

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

— Alexander Akyna

“You with your veins full of night — you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of…

— Emil M. Cioran

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one -…

— Robert James Graves

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

— Joseph Addison

I joke that my epitaph will be, 'No Oscars, but at least he had a game named after him.'

— Kevin Bacon

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.

— Eric McCormack

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed…

— Dan Pallotta

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

— Oswald Mosley

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

— Gloria Swanson

“He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR…

— Nicanor Parra

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students…

— William Osler

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph…

— Daniel Tammet

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph…

— Pericles

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

— George Sutherland

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put…

— Charles Stross

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink…

— H. L. Mencken

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been…

— Gratis P. Spencer

“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice,…

— Gretta Curran Browne

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent…

— Will Rogers

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only…

— Andy Warhol

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings…

— George Sutherland

His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed…

— Diophantus

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…

— Sam Houston

“Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with…

— Paullina Simons

“I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.”

— Julie Andrews

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'

— Ory Okolloh

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow