Quotes of: Epitaph Keyword

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproducti...

James Fenton

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

Robert Emmet

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

American

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

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Henry David Thoreau

My Epitaph: THIS is Plan B

Oran Kangas

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

George S. Kaufman

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

Irvin S. Cobb

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

Alan Arkin

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Paul Eldridge

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

Gloria Swanson

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

Gail Borden

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

Her close friends have gathered. Lord, ain't it a shame Grieving together Sharing the blame. But when she was dying Lord, we let her down. There's no use cryin' It can't help her now. The party's all over Drink up and go home. It's too late to love h...

Kris Kristofferson

Epitaph Den Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Hundert (100) Gedichte

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

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

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

Thomas Ligotti

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Kurt Vonnegut

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