Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia.
W.C. FieldsTags: epitaph humorous-epitaphs
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.
Tags: death epitaph simplicity tombstone realization
What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.
Peter DuncanDeath Notice, ...... “He was offended
with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817
Tags: epitaph darwin-award
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon L. AlderTags: life goals kindness purpose death stories story tribute eulogy epitaph death-and-dying life-lessons achievements charity dying legacy hearts speeches funerals gravestone life-purpose tombstones life-missions commencement-speech
Anne Mc Caffrey has gone between
Susan HavensTags: epitaph
I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
Tobias WolffTags: humor death epitaph irony
[Dust]
Agatha Morley
all her life
grumbled at dust
like a good wife
...
Six feet under
the earth she lies
with dust at her feet
and dust in her eyes.
It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!
Hunter S. ThompsonTags: horror epitaph exterminate
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)
Tags: epitaph sylvia-plath ted-hughes truths
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