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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.