Epitaph Quotes
95 quotes by 77 authors
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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
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder
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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
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I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
— Paul Newman
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I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
— Johannes Kepler
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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
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Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot
— Joss Whedon
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Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph
— Studs Terkel
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
— Aphra Behn
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Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
— Jeaniene Frost
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
— Paulo Coelho
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...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
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They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough.…
— William Faulkner
Who Wrote These Epitaph Quotes
77 authors contributed a total of 95 Epitaph Quotes, led by these top contributors: