#epitaph

"When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her"

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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'."

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."

"Here lies Dobby, a free elf."

"Live your epitaph"

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."

"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"

"Would you like me to [kill you] now?"asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?"

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]"

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."

"I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]"