Epitaph Quotes · Page 5

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

— Joseph Conrad

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who…

— Andrew Carnegie

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

— Edward Abbey

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

— Aphra Behn

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about…

— Shannon Alder

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

— Paul Newman

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good…

— Rebecca West

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.…

— Ludwig von Mises

“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read.…

— Jan Karon

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or…

— Billy Sunday

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

“Stop ye travellers as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, soon you shall…

— Anonymous

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till…

— Robert Emmet

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is…

— William Faulkner

“EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,   Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon…

— Joseph Addison

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the…

— William Faulkner

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it…

— Paul Eddington

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only…

— Thaddeus Stevens

“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father…

— Thomas Jefferson

“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men.…

— Carl Sandberg

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

— Robert Emmet

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Coelorum perrupit claustra. He broke through the barriers of the skies. [ Herschel's epitaph ]”

— William Herschel

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Here lies clever Trevor; Truth was not his friend. He lied until the end; Now, he’ll lie forever.”

— Esther Spurrill Jones

“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]”

— Christopher Wren

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded. [Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]”

— Gail Borden

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

— Otto von Bismarck

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to…

— Andy Warhol

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

— Anonymous

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

— Cyril Connolly

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

— John Dryden