Epitaph Quotes

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like."

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to startle her.

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

A man's character is best described in his epitaph

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.