“ Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ”
- Alexander The Great- Copy
- 3.9K
“ This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 274
“ When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. ”
- Gloria Swanson- Copy
- 700
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness. ”
- John Andrew Holmes- Copy
- 2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
- 738
“ Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 879
“ Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains," but "Emigrated to another star!". ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
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