Priyamvada Natarajan

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

Indian Scientist

Alan Alda

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.

American Actor

Sidney Hook

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

American Philosopher

Billy Graham

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

American Clergyman

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Irish Activist

Robert Frost

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

American Poet

Daniel Tammet

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.

English Writer

Andy Warhol

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.

American Artist

Henry David Thoreau

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

American Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

German Philosopher

An epitaph is a lasting tribute to a deceased person, capturing their memory in a few words.

Lasting Message

Epitaphs often contain personal messages that reflect the deceased's life philosophy or personality.

Personal Tone

Though brief, an epitaph's words can evoke strong emotions and are chosen with care.

Poignant Words

An epitaph can be a symbolic representation of a person's life or a significant aspect of it.

Symbolic Phrase

An epitaph doesn't only belong on a gravestone but can also be an impactful phrase associated with someone's life achievements.

Living Legacy

In literature, an 'epitaph' might be used metaphorically to signify the end or legacy of an idea or movement.

Metaphorical Use

 Now we're talking the potential for real change. But it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low. Our generation does not want its epitaph to read,

The way we think about...

 no symptoms to make matters worse the government doesn't seem to be doing much to help find a cure I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would that read that I died of red tape but there's no delay at school