Character Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:…

— Anonymous

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

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“I will become an eternal epitaph. Your memory shall survive for eternity, within a crystal tomb. This shall be my legacy and my atonement.…

— Lightning

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Rebecca West

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“Honor the dead, treasure the living. For we are saved for a later grave to receive Thy eternal grace.”

— Kenyatta Kelechi

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

— George Crabbe

“so also by the obedience of one man, righteousness having been introduced, shall cause life to fructify in those persons who in times past…

— The Church Fathers

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin