“For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time”
George Sutherland
“I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness,”
Zach Braff
“On Father's Day 2001, the mayor and I attended the funerals of three brave fire-fighters lost in the line of duty. I couldn't help thinking, as we were winding down our terms of office, that it was one of the saddest days I could remember, not knowing my life and the lives of those around me would change forever very soon.”
Thomas Von Essen
“If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph”
David Glaser
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
Charlie Chaplin
“And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East'.”
Rudyard Kipling
“The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''”
Gregory Nunn
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