75 Quotes About Epitaph

The inevitable is that unprepared for.

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

Our loved ones may be nailed in a coffin but their epitaph is nailed in our hearts. Death cannot kill love.

Be the author of your life story.

Death is a debt to Nature dueWhich we have paid and so must you.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice(If you seek his monument, look around.)[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]

Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

In memory of Robert Harris, sometime Major-General of His Majesty's forces before Plymouth, who was buried hereunder the 29th day of June 1655. And of Honor Harris his sister, who was likewise here underneath buried, the 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1653.Loyall and stout; they Crime this--this thy praise.Thou'rt here with Honour laid--though without Bayes.

I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.