With Halloween right around the corner, it's finally appropriate to pull out those old, dusty movies and old, dusty costumes for a lot of people's favorite holiday. Fall is rolling in like smoke from those fog machines we all wish we could decorate our homes with to freak out some kids in observation of this mysterious holiday.
One of people's favorite things to do is to dress as dead men and women, to remember them in their haunting auras. The coolest things to do, however, is to look into those last words these men and women left us with in the form of their headstone engravings.
" It's not an epitaph. I felt like I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of someone trying to figure it all out." -- Alan Alda
1. "Here lies one whose name is writ in water."
-- John Keats
(October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821)
2. "Called back."
-- Emily Dickinson
(December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)
3. "I told you so, you damn fools."
-- H. G. Wells
(September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946)
4. "The best is yet to come."
-- Frank Sinatra
(December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998)
5. "A tomb now suffices for whom the world was not enough."
-- Alexander the Great
(July 356 B.C. - June 323 B.C.)
6. "For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night."
-- Jean d'Orbesan
(d. July 1860)
7. "Alien tears will fill him pity's long-broken urn, for his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
-- Oscar Wilde
(October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900)
8. Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
-- Karl Marx
(May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883)
9. "Everybody loves somebody sometime."
- Dean Martin
(June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995)
10. "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you."
-- Sir Christopher Wren
(October 20, 1632 - February 25, 1723)
"And were an epitaph to be my story, I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on the stone, I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
- Robert Frost
