Epitaph
noun
A message written on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there.
His epitaph reads, 'Loving husband and father.'
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- write an epitaph
- read an epitaph
noun
A phrase or statement that represents someone or something, especially someone who has died or something that has ended.
His brave actions against the enemy became his epitaph.
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- become someone's epitaph
- words as an epitaph
noun
A message written on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there.
His epitaph reads, 'Loving husband and father.'
Often appears as...
- write an epitaph
- read an epitaph
noun
A phrase or statement that represents someone or something, especially someone who has died or something that has ended.
His brave actions against the enemy became his epitaph.
Often appears as...
- become someone's epitaph
- words as an epitaph
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Pro Tip 1/3Lasting Message
An epitaph is a lasting tribute to a deceased person, capturing their memory in a few words.
The epitaph engraved on her tombstone echoed her kindness.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Tone
Epitaphs often contain personal messages that reflect the deceased's life philosophy or personality.
His epitaph simply read, 'He lived fully, loved deeply.'
Pro Tip 3/3Poignant Words
Though brief, an epitaph's words can evoke strong emotions and are chosen with care.
Her epitaph, 'She inspired others,' moved all who read it.
Pro Tip 1/3Lasting Message
An epitaph is a lasting tribute to a deceased person, capturing their memory in a few words.
The epitaph engraved on her tombstone echoed her kindness.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Tone
Epitaphs often contain personal messages that reflect the deceased's life philosophy or personality.
His epitaph simply read, 'He lived fully, loved deeply.'
Pro Tip 3/3Poignant Words
Though brief, an epitaph's words can evoke strong emotions and are chosen with care.
Her epitaph, 'She inspired others,' moved all who read it.
Pro Tip 1/3Lasting Message
An epitaph is a lasting tribute to a deceased person, capturing their memory in a few words.
The epitaph engraved on her tombstone echoed her kindness.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Tone
Epitaphs often contain personal messages that reflect the deceased's life philosophy or personality.
His epitaph simply read, 'He lived fully, loved deeply.'
Pro Tip 3/3Poignant Words
Though brief, an epitaph's words can evoke strong emotions and are chosen with care.
Her epitaph, 'She inspired others,' moved all who read it.
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The way we think about...
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,
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Gen X Reacts to AIDS PIPE...
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
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The way we think about...
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,
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Gen X Reacts to AIDS PIPE...
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
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Priyamvada Natarajan
Indian Scientist
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.
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Alan Alda
American Actor
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.
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Sidney Hook
American Philosopher
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.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
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.
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Robert Emmet
Irish Activist
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.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
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.
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Daniel Tammet
English Writer
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.
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Andy Warhol
American Artist
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.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Priyamvada Natarajan
Indian Scientist
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.
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Alan Alda
American Actor
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.
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Sidney Hook
American Philosopher
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.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
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.
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Robert Emmet
Irish Activist
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.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
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.
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Daniel Tammet
English Writer
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.
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Andy Warhol
American Artist
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.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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