Comment Quote by Edward Abbey

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

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written…

— James Fenton

“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice, nor ignorance,…

— Gretta Curran Browne

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready…

— Robert Emmet

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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,…

— William Shakespeare

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

— Robert Emmet

...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

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

“This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names…

— Charlotte Brontë

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…

— William Shakespeare

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their…

— Henry David Thoreau