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Epitaph Quotes

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

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

David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir”, HarperCollins

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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

"Studs Terkel, voice of America's uncelebrated, dies aged 96" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.270

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

"Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2008.

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

Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks