Epitaph Quotes
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
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]
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
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
Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks