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Tag Name "Epitaph" (95)

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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Bob Dylan
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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.
Mickey Rooney
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.
Ilana Mercer
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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.
Steve Kluger
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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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...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.
P. G. Wodehouse
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
Dorothy Parker
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
Isaac Newton
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
Bertrand Russell
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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
Dorothy Parker
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And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
Rudyard Kipling
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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
Hannah Whitall Smith
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I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
Otto von Bismarck
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Joseph Conrad
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
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Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.
George Sutherland
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
Octavio Paz
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