Epitaph Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epitaph Quality Truth
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
