Top 29 Tombstone Epitaph Quotes
#1. A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]
Alexander The Great
#2. First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
Julian Castro
#3. That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker
#4. If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.
Charlie Munger
#6. I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."
Harry S. Truman
#7. I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: "See you soon
Edouard Leve
#8. But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.
Corrie Ten Boom
#9. Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun and blow his brains out and on his tombstone the epitaph would read, Here lies Alexander, who couldn't remember the name of any girl he had fucked.
Paullina Simons
#11. I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
John Podhoretz
#12. 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 favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.
Scott Nicholson
#13. I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches ... all of it.
MaryJanice Davidson
#14. Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Doris Lessing
#15. His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#16. Show me a man that is not passion's slave and I will wear him in my heart's core.
William Shakespeare
#17. I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?
Zach Braff
#18. All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
Bertrand Russell
#19. It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.
Tom Rath
#20. What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.
Peter Duncan
#21. I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
Hannah Whitall Smith
#22. There occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
P.G. Wodehouse
#23. If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Emile M. Cioran
#24. 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 blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.
Andy Warhol
#25. Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord?
Adam Hochschild
#26. If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?"
Here's my response:
Unfair.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#27. Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
Billy Sunday
#28. The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves.
Chloe Thurlow
