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Tag Name "Epitaph" (95)

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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
John Dryden
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
William Faulkner
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
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I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat. I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
Studs Terkel
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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
William Butler Yeats
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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
Mark Twain
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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
Brian Clough
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Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
William Shakespeare
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T. S. Eliot
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
Aphra Behn
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats
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Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.
Gerard Way
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Paul Eldridge
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton
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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
Samuel Johnson
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
Harry S. Truman
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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
Rebecca West
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History fades into fable fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
Washington Irving
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The first shall be last and the last shall be first.
Killah Priest
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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
John Milton
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
Henry David Thoreau
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