epitaph Quotes

An epitaph is a deceased epigraph.

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

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

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

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

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

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: \'He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

Once someone asked me, \'What do you want to be your epitaph?\' So I said, \'Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say \'doggone.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.