Epitaph Quote by Robert Emmet

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

“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

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

...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

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it…

— Billy Graham

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of…

— Will Rogers

“The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.”

— Elaine Radley

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

— James T. Farrell

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of…

— Will Rogers

“She'll take my breath, she'll take my bones, but she cannot have my epitaph. For if indeed I truly am a writer, then e'er…

— Anne Schilde

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