79 Epitaph Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 Born by myself, die by myself.

Dmx as Tommy in Belly (1998)

52 People just disappear. -The earth just opens up and swallows them.

Quote from American Psycho

53 If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

Sarah in The Crow (1994)

54 This was a good boy. He'd have been a good man. Didn't get his chance.

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)

55 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Quote from The Comedy of Terrors

56 The sea was his kingdom while he was alive. Let it take his body now he's dead.

Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

57 Man's fate... You gods, have I not done enough in this short span of life to sit among you? Must I be cursed with man's fate?

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)

58 After I am dead, see to it that my body is carried out and cast into the River Euphrates, so that it may disappear, that men will forever believe that from the gods I came and to the gods I returned.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)

59 Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon... very soon.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

60 You're not leaving the world with that cynical remark?

Quote from Monsieur Verdoux