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• She did it the hard way.

  Bette Davis

  Tombstone, Way, Gravestone

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Cynical, Quality

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.170, Princeton University Press

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• I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Names, Headstone

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

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• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

  Mark Twain

  Romantic, Good Night, Summer

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.1366, e-artnow

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• Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

  Billy Sunday

  Tombstone, Finals, Behind You

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

  Alan Alda

  Trying, Looks, Stories

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Artist, Names

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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• Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Lying, Wife

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

  Helen Hunt

  Stars, Pain, Writing

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Memorial, Safe

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.770, Delphi Classics

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Memorial, Mutual Love, Crowns

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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• The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

  Killah Priest

  Lasts, Firsts, Headstone

  Song: B.I.B.L.E, Album: Heavy Mental

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial, Funeral, Heaven

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• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tombstone, Lying, Fighting

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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• Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Memorial, Headstone, Gravestone

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4626, e-artnow

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• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Tombstone, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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• Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Tombstone, Father

  Epitaph (1826) on Jefferson's gravestone at his home, Monticello, at Charlottesville, Va.

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• In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Writing, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)

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• [Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suggesting

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• Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.

  George Sutherland

  Memories, Hands, Land

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• Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Cat, Charming

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• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Death, Gratitude, Grief

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• Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

  Aphra Behn

  Lying, Enough, Mortality

  Aphra Behn (2014). “The Rover: Revised edition”, p.11, A&C Black

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