{"quotes":[{"text":"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["epitaph","humor","the-new-yorker"],"id":30096,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achievements","charity","commencement-speech","death","death-and-dying","dying","epitaph","eulogy","funerals","goals","gravestone","hearts","kindness","legacy","life","life-lessons","life-missions","life-purpose","purpose","speeches","stories","story","tombstones","tribute"],"id":34396,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδεκείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae].","author":"Simonides","tags":["300","epitaph","honor","spartans","thermopylae"],"id":41691,"author_id":"Simonides"},{"text":"I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.","author":"Guy de Maupassant","tags":["epitaph","meaning-of-life","syphilis"],"id":50225,"author_id":"Guy+de+Maupassant"},{"text":"Which epitaph would you choose for your grave-stone: 'He made lots of money.' or 'He saved the Earth'? And don't think I'm being sarcastic, because for once, I'm not. We're all going to die. What will be your legacy? Smaug-loads of money? Or Saving the Earth? It's your choice.","author":"Steve Bivans","tags":["epitaph","greed","hobbits","legacy","save-the-earth","smaug"],"id":67048,"author_id":"Steve+Bivans"},{"text":"Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["epitaph","epitaphs","joe","kind","sweet","understanding"],"id":69897,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"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).","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["death","epitaph","hope","loss","love","mind","rebirth","resurrection"],"id":81370,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"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'.","author":"Andy Warhol","tags":["death","epitaph","grave","heaven","hell","life","passing-on","tombstone"],"id":88090,"author_id":"Andy+Warhol"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia Briggs","tags":["aralorn","epitaph","humor","masques"],"id":93100,"author_id":"Patricia+Briggs"},{"text":"Here lies Dobby, a free elf.","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["death","epitaph"],"id":129852,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}