When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".
[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.
[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
