Epitaph Quotes

95 quotes by 77 authors

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. — Dorothy Parker
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. — Thornton Wilder
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. — Paul Newman
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot — Joss Whedon
Curiosity never killed this catâ€™ â€” thatâ€™s what Iâ€™d like as my epitaph — Studs Terkel
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn
Wouldnâ€™t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. — Jeaniene Frost
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any… — Lord Byron
Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at… — Steve Kluger
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre,… — Joseph Conrad
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the… — Kurt Vonnegut
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you… — Gerard Way
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left… — C.S. Lewis
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive. — Paulo Coelho
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He… — P.G. Wodehouse
They say love dies between two people. Thatâ€™s wrong. It doesnâ€™t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you arenâ€™t good enough, worthy enough.… — William Faulkner

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