Epitaph Quotes

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'