20 Epitaph Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 will point people not to me, but to the One I served. Billy Graham

Hope Me People Simple Will Whatever Own My Own Point Written Sure Should Epitaph Served

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche

Emotion Wit Epitaph

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

Wave Out He Particle Wrote Up Ended Epitaph Started

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

You Thought Own Everything Way Say Vanish My Own Only Could Blank Never Name Like Well Always Understood Died Going Just Epitaph Keep Keep Going Why Tombstone Actually

In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated. David Grann

History Brazil Tribes Out Indians Wiped Songs Between Like Reads Were Disease Often The History Of Interaction Epitaph Languages Whites Extended

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. Eric McCormack

Myself Challenge Will Truman Epitaph Actor

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

God Finally Eye Dead Caught His Waiter Epitaph

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 reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone. James Fenton

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it. John Caudwell

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.' Ory Okolloh

Stuff She Read Were Did Want Epitaph

That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.' Phil Lord

Thought Bad Lies Lord Might Epitaph Here Phil

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. Philip Sidney

Love You Memory Sky Mind Live Earth Must Favour Poetry Poets Lift Never Sonnet Thus Look Up Itself Behalf Get Die Send Lacking Curse Want Cannot While Much Skill Epitaph Your

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin. Priyamvada Natarajan

World Solar Own Speeding Our Ruin Solar System System Carrying Introduction Record Civilization Remain Beyond Make Sure Caused Human Human Civilization Sent Them Epitaph Need

A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.' Robert Silverberg

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

Truth Quality Rarest Epitaph

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