Top Epitaph Quotes

How many infinite lives have been lived since man first had consciousness or awareness of his soul?And how many of those souls have stared up at the stars in wonder; pondered the meaning of their exis...

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

Epitaph Definition

(n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.

(n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

(v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.

(v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her d...

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

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.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e

Would you like me to [kill you] now? asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies

Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your f...

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blan...

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Reader one moment stop and think,That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.