Epitaph Quotations | Page 2

One thing I never thought about when we signed with Epitaph is how much music can change these kids' lives. I've had kids show me scars on their wrists and tell me that our music saved their life.

Death looses its sting when the epitaph drafted for the tombstone of the departed even by those with whom he crossed swords in his lifetime is filled with encomiums.

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.