Quotes about epitaphs




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"Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever."

Agate, James on epitaphs    Share


"The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty."

Butler, Nicholas on epitaphs    Share

"Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss."

Byron, Lord on epitaphs    Share

"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."

Cervantes, Miguel De on epitaphs    Share

"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."

Cobb, Irvin S. on epitaphs    Share

"Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree."

Connolly, Cyril on epitaphs
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"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living."

Eldridge, Paul on epitaphs    Share

"Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character."

Emmet, Robert on epitaphs    Share

"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."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!"

Jackson, Helen Hunt on epitaphs    Share

"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath."

Johnson, Samuel on epitaphs    Share

"The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right."

Nunn, Gregory on epitaphs    Share

"If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave."

Proverb, American on epitaphs    Share

"At last God caught his eye."

Secombe, Harry on epitaphs    Share

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

Swanson, Gloria on epitaphs    Share

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