Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook." — Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 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
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
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
“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 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
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
...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
“I hope that the epitaph of the human race when the world ends will be: Here perished a species which lived to… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
“If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No one gets out of this life alive. So leave a footprint of your choice. You are writing your epitaph. You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats 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
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson 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
“Warm summer sun, shine friendly here Warm western wind, blow kindly here; Green sod above, rest light, rest light, Good-night, Annette! Sweetheart,… — robert richardson 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
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
I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and… — Billy Graham 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
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
“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted" - Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West… — Wu Cheng'en 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 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/i/7da/simonides-61471_300_o-stranger-send-the-news-home-to-the-peo_737958.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/i/4cb/johannes-kepler-4278_earth_i-used-to-measure-the-skies-now-i-measur_2088095.jpg)
![“Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night…” quote by George Polya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be8/george-polya-10766_casts_epitaph-on-newton-nature-and-nature-s-la_2908921.png)
