75 Quotes About Epitaph

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"- Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

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

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Epitaph.Not next year, not the next one, Not the year after that. But agesFrom here,Clad in love stained sleeping bags,Dying with feet wrapped in endlessShirts and pillow cases,Crumbling with 99 flakes clutched Between thumb and palm, drippingYellow cream from twig fingers,Basking our white haired chests on Green grassed parks under purpleSkies. Laughing over coffee after Bath tubs of coffee have passed Through our guts. Huddled, lonely,Under heaped clothes, here lay us...