Quotes about Epitaph

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Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about — Shannon L. Alder
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better — Dorothy Parker
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to — Patricia Briggs, Masques
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clot — C.S. Lewis
Here lies Dobby, a free elf. — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compo — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink you — H.L. Mencken
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.] — Alexander the Great
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only y — Andy Warhol
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 — Scott Nicholson
As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. — Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
Her close friends have gathered.Lord, ain't it a shameGrieving togetherSharing the blame.But when she was dyingLord, we — Kris Kristofferson
What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. — Peter Duncan
I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body li — Johannes Kepler
One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men — Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln
Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly! — Helme Heine, Seven Wild Pigs: Eleven Picture Book Fantasies
Everything I have become,everything I will ever accomplishcannot compare to my mostimpressive feat:I have loved youfierc — Kamand Kojouri
How many infinite lives have been lived since man first had consciousness or awareness of his soul?And how many of those — Morris R. Gates