Epitaph Quotes

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Short, Story, Quarrel

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Quality, Rarest

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

Thought, Actually, Name

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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

Everything, Thought, Why

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Joseph Addison

Lost, Words, Cannot

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
Alan Alda

Life, Good, Trying

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Billy Sunday

Live, Leave, Behind

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.
Jane Campion

Love, Amazing, Romantic

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook

Life, Person, Living

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb

Line, Goods, Belated

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
George S. Kaufman

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
Margrethe II of Denmark

Best, Hope, Remember

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
Robert James Graves

May, Give, Gone

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
George Sutherland

Time, Freedom, Lost

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

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
Robert Emmet

Character, May, Country

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