Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Epitaphs.
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.
Gregory Nunn
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
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Paul Eldridge
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Helen Hunt Jackson
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Cyril Connolly
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.
Proverb
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
At last God caught his eye.
Harry Secombe
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson
