Epitaph Quotes

95 quotes by 77 authors

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. — Cyril Connolly
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. — Robert Emmet
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan
It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the… — Jane Campion
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. — Robert James Graves
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph. — Otto von Bismarck
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop… — Charles Stross
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my… — Will Rogers
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my… — Robert Frost
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at… — H. L. Mencken
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in… — Billy Sunday
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. — Henry David Thoreau
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' — Andy Warhol
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't… — Andy Warhol
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell
I knew that I shouldnâ€™t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my… — Michael Chabon
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write… — William Shakespeare

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