Some impressive epitaphs

编者按：墓志铭也是一种文化。从西方人的墓志铭中可看出他们对自己一生和这个世界的态度，或爱意深沉，或诙谐戏谑，或自由不羁。当我们只是一抔黄土深埋在荒芜里，后人又是否会在我们石碑前行走亦驻足，微笑或哽咽我都接受，只要是发自内心的动容。

1.This spot is the sweetest I’ve seen in my life.

For it raises my flowers and covers my wife.

2. Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

3. In an instant

She touched our hearts

Forever

4. The cup of life just to her lips she prest,

Found its taste bitter & denied the rest,

Averse,then turning from the light of day

She softly sighed her little life away.

5. Opened my eyes,took a peep,

Didn’t like it,went to sleep.

6. Now she is like all others

7. Here lies an Atheist

All dressed up

And no place to go.

8. Reader if cash thou art

In want of any

Dig 4 feet deep

And thou wilt find a Penny

9. Here lies

Johnny Yeast

Pardon me

For not rising.

10. My trip is Ended.

Send My Samples Home.

11. Exit—Burbidge.

12. To the Green Memory of

William Hawkins

Gardener:

Planted Here

With Love and Care

By His

Grieving Colleagues

13. Fair Virtue’s up old Time’s the Auctioneer

A lot so lovely can’t be bought

Dear,

Be quick in your biddings ere you are too late,

Time will not dwell,the hammer will not wait.

14. Cast a cold eye

On life,on death

Horseman,pass by!

15. Called Back.

16. I Had A Lover’s Quarrel With The World.

17.Here a mound suffices for one for whom the world was not large enough.

18. Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.

It was.

19. Accidentally shot

As a mark of affection

From his brother

20. Jonathan Blake

Stepped on the gas

Instead of the brake.

21. He caught The Pearly Gates Express.

22. Death is a debt

By nature due

I’ve paid my shot.