Epitaphs
epitaphs try to capture an ocean and present it as a drop.. but while some fail, some even though they dont succeed get etched in our hearts forever.. here are a few i loved reading..
Robert Frost
“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”
John Donne
“John Donne
Undone.”
Quaniaron Bellthing
“Well this was fun, let’s do it again sometime.”
Werner Heisenberg (the founder of Uncertainity principle)
“He lies here, somewhere.”
(This is a joke about the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which implies that one may not know the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously.)
Kent
“Grim death took me without any warning
I was well at night and dead at nine in the morning”
King Leonidas of Sparta
“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their orders, we lie.”
Dean Martin
“Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” (the title of one of his songs)
John Laird McCaffery
“John
Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are!
—Missed by your friends”
Osho
“Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.”
Frank Sinatra
“The best is yet to come.” (the title of one of his songs)
Harold J Story
“Before you jump in here with me,
make sure you bring good memories.
For here they’re all we have to trade,
and where you are is where they’re made.”
Anon
“Tears cannot
Restore her:
Therefore I weep.”
Anon
“Blimey it’s darker than I thought in here.”
anon
“I finished before you in the human race.”
Mel Blanc
“thats all folks”
Gregory Allan Elliot
Don’t waste your short life reading epitaphs like this.
