79 Epitaph Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

A selection of epitaph quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

11 I have always valued my lifelessness.

Tik Tok in Return to Oz

12 I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I'm an epitaph.

Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone in The Incredibles

13 Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.

Oliver Reed as Proximo in Gladiator (2000)

14 Death can come for you anyplace, anytime. It's never welcome, but if you've done all you can do and it's your best... in a way, I guess, you're ready for him.

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)

15 This may seem a lonesome place to leave him. But he's not alone. Because many of his kind rest here with him.

Roscoe Lee Browne as Jebediah Nightlinger in The Cowboys (1972)

16 How was it possible to kill this man? There was never a minute he was without his pistols.

Quote from Shogun Assassin 2

17 If tomorrow is our great getting-up morning, if tomorrow we have to meet the Judgment Day, oh, Heavenly Father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy.

Quote from Glory (1989)

18 We must be on our way now, you and I. Our bones will soon be ashes, and we shall never be separated again.

Tony Todd as Candyman in Candyman (1992)

19 I don't mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little enough of it while he was alive.

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

20 It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I've ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)