It is not easy to think about epitaphs beautiful to decorate our grave, although it is something quite important that we should take into account. With an epitaph, people who know us will remember us every time they visit our tomb, and those who go through the cemetery , as well.
Therefore, it is good to think of beautiful epitaphs that are not negative, or that are even funny. After all, if we can take life as a joke, we would also have to do it with death, and leave our successors a reason to remember us with a nice memory.
50 Beautiful and memorable epitaphs | The most exciting tombstones
1. And so we keep pushing, boats against the current, attracted incessantly to the past. - In the tomb of Francis Scott Fitzgerald
2. Where she was, it was Eden.
3. This is what happens to bad guys. - Alfred Hitchcock
4. Here are our bones waiting for yours.
5. If I did not live longer, it was because he did not give me time. - Marqués de Sade
6. You have made us Lord for you and our heart will be unsatisfied until it rests in you. - Epitaph of Saint Augustine
7. Try to leave this world a little better than how you found it. - Robert Baden-Powell
8. Put me, eternal Father, in your chest, / mysterious home. / I will sleep there, for I come undone / hard to fight. - Miguel de Unamuno
9. The saddest tears that are crying over the graves are for the words that were never said.
10. Here lies Molière, the king of the actors. In these moments he is dead and he really does it well. - Molière
11. It looks like it's gone, but it's not gone. - Cantinflas
12. It is more worthy for men to learn to die than to kill. - Seneca
13. Good friend, for Jesus, refrain from digging the dust enclosed here. Blessed is the man who respects these stones, and cursed is he who removes my bones. - William Shakespeare
14. We have loved the stars too fervently to fear the night.
15. Lies here somewhere. - Werner Heisenberg
16. The suns are hidden and may appear again but when our ephemeral light is hidden, the night is forever and the dream is eternal. - Cayo Valerio Catulo
17. My trip ends here. Think, mortal, whoever you are, that I was what you are. There is no fixed age; Maybe you are today what I am. You do not care about my name, even, it's here who waits for you.
18. Sleep. The luck persecutes rue; He died losing the pledge of his soul. Long expiation, the acute penalty was; and thus he obtained the celestial palm. - Jean Valjean, at the end of Les Miserables
19. See you soon, children.
20. Here lies a brave man, a fearsome adversary and a man of honor. Rest in peace. - Manfred von Richthofen
We continue with more pretty epitaphs that make our hearts vibrate.
21. Killed by a coward and traitor whose name does not deserve to be listed here. - Jesse James
22. Do not cry because I'm leaving. Cry because I will not return. - José Luis Voltas
23. Here lies one whose name was written in water. - John Keats
24. We will remember, of this planet. - Leonardo Sciascia
25. Do not try. - Epitaph of Charles Bukowski
26. I'm really grateful; there are those to whom life denied everything, and to me, of everything that makes you be, feel, enjoy, have, gave me at least, double. - Skinny Meraz
27. My friends, think that I sleep.
28. He remains sad and standing next to the wake of the late Kroisos, a front-line fighter whom the impetuous Ares has snatched.
29. I am a writer, but nobody is perfect. - Billy Wilder
30. Open this tomb: in the background you can see the sea. - Vicente Huidobro
31. Do not envy the peace of the dead. - Nostradamus
32. Those who lie in the cold tomb are not dead, dead are those who have a dead soul and still live.
33. Oh, Mother Uut! Stretch out your wings like the eternal stars! - Tutankhamun
34. True to his own spirit. - Jim Morrison
35. You are also in the queue, the only thing is that you do not know how much you lack.
36. ... And they passed like shadows; as travelers who go in post.
37. Silence is music.
38. The starry sky above me, the moral law in me.
39. Hated by his enemies and feared by his friends. - Mario Key
40. Here all the vanities of the world end.
41. ... And do not be afraid. - Jorge Luis Borges
42. I have snowed so much for you to sleep.
43. You will be what I am.
44. What the soul does for its body is what the artist does for his people. - Gabriela Mistral
45. The last one that turns off the light.
46. Here he rests and at home we all rest.
47. I will come back and I will be millions. - Tupac Katari, Aymara leader
48. Here lies the body of B. Franklin, Printer. Like the covers of an old book, its contents ripped out and stripped of its titles and ornaments. But the work will not be lost; because as he believed, it will appear again in a new and more elegant edition, corrected and improved by the Author. - Written by Benjamin Franklin when he was 22 years old
49. Tell the Spartans, traveler you pass by here, that obedient to their laws, here we lie. - Epitaph of the Spartans who died at the Battle of Thermopylae
50. I knew good and evil, sin and virtue, justice and infamy; I judged and was judged, I went through birth and death, through joy and pain, heaven and hell; and at last I recognized that I am in everything and everything is in me. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
We hope you liked this article about beautiful epitaphs, and that you have managed to inspire yourself for some or that, at least, you have seemed curious. And you, do you have an epitaph designed for your grave? How would you like to be remembered? Remember that you can tell us in the comments! We will love reading! And if you know more pretty epitaphs, share them too!