Here's an intriguing list of epitaphs I came across while surfing:

http://goodquotes.com/gravestones.htm

Among my favorites:

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.
Sylvia Plath Hughes
(Heptonstall Churchyard;Heponstall; Yorkshire, United Kingdom)

VOCATUS ATQUE
NON VOCATUS
DEUS ADERIT
Carl Jung
(Flutern Cemetery; Fluntern (Zurich), Switzerland)
{Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.}

The Stone the Builders Rejected
Jack London
(Jack London State Historic Park; Glen Ellen, California)

Marty Feldman
1934-1982
He made us laugh
He took my pain away
I love you
Lauretta

(I loved Marty Feldman!...funny man!)

Frank Zappa
(Unmarked)
located to the right of Lew Ayres

(after all that, Frank?...not one word left for an epitaph!?...Incredible! )

She did it the hard way.
Bette Davis
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)

(and, of course, my all-time favorite)

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World
Robert Frost
(Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont)
















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