79 Epitaph Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

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.

61 You know what I like best about your papers over here? These obituaries. Every son of a gun gets this stately funeral oration. It's not an art we have in United States. -Indeed, sir.

Christopher Reeve as Congressman Jack Lewis in The Remains of the Day

62 Taking him all in all, this was a man.

Robert Morley in The Loved One (1965)

63 He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt in The Third Man (1949)

64 A fool's courage. Fight death all your days then die, knowing you know nothing.

Ernst Deutsch as Dr. Drossos in Isle of the Dead (1945)

65 It will be a new year, but without our old friend. -Our dear friend. -Our former friend.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in A Very Merry Pooh Year

66 I'm sorry, Pooh. It's over. He's just a teensy-weensy memory.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

67 He has come for me. The silent boatman to ferry me across the shadowed river.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

68 And man that is born of woman has but a short time to live. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as if it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Quote from The Westerner (1940)

69 He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors and bowling.

Quote from The Big Lebowski

70 What they gonna put on your tombstone? 'Here lies a man, 27 years old. He died, but he ain't no punk.'

Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray in Harlem Nights