William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."
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Epitaph
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"History: a collection of epitaphs."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'."
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"[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me."
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"[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot."
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"I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen."
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