Your epitaph / Seu epitáfio

by Paulo Coelho on June 3, 2011

Once someone asked me:
“What do you want to be your epitaph?” [ text on your tombstone]
I answered:” I will be cremated, but if I ever had an epitaph, it would be:
‘ Paulo Coelho died while he was alive.” ”

The person said “Why this epitaph? Everybody dies when he or she is alive.”
I said, “No, this is not true. If the same pattern is repeated over and over again, you are not alive anymore. To die alive is to take risks. To pay your price.”

Some epitaphs:

“Don’t Try” Charles Bukowski

The best is yet to come.” Frank Sinatra

“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world” Robert Frost

“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I’m Free At Last.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough” Alexander the Great

“Truth to your own spirit” Jim Morrison

SO, HERE IS MY QUESTION
What should be written in your tombstone?
Qual seria o seu epitáfio?

USE COMMENTS BELOW TO ANSWER, ALLOWING PEOPLE WHO ARE NEITHER IN TWITTER NOR IN FACEBOOK TO READ IT

| USE “COMMENTS” ABAIXO PARA RESPONDER, PERMITINDO QUE GENTE QUE NAO ESTÁ NO TWITTER OU FACEBOOK POSSA LER TAMBEM

Previous post:

Next post:

{ 1643 comments… read them below or add one }

Etelka Huber May 18, 2012 at 10:43 pm

See you later – in another place and time -with love

Reply

Gard May 2, 2012 at 2:39 pm

Read it on a tombstone on the towns cemetary:

Sag Deiner Angst dass sie sich irrt.
Tell your fear that it is in error

Reply

Jean-François Verville February 13, 2012 at 7:44 am

Dans la tirerie de mes pensées
L’âme s’étendait en lui, recovrié, délaissé
Et de mon propre corps, je me sens prisonier

De la tristesse qui a assaillit mon coeur
Tant de rage, d’angoisse et de rancoeur
Devant cette impuissance qui fait notre malheur

Mais pourtant, l’épé de l’espoir a fait choir sa lame
Une goûte de lumière au millieux de mon âme
Et aussitôt me vint une moins triste larme

Moi, créatures de lumière dans ce monde
Force éternelle qui vagabonde
De son âme a fait fuir toute cette grande pénombre

Reply

deepa August 27, 2011 at 8:22 am

off to yet another adventure

Reply

Mariana August 2, 2011 at 9:47 am

I’m with you. for ever

Reply

vera roxo July 10, 2011 at 1:04 pm

E tudo voltou ao início.

Reply

Kasyap July 9, 2011 at 11:52 am

Life goes on..

Reply

Andrian Lim July 8, 2011 at 7:10 pm

At least I fought a good one.

Reply

Irina July 4, 2011 at 4:18 am

Te voi iubi mereu cei dragi!!

Reply

persa June 30, 2011 at 10:32 am

Lived, Loved, Died.

Reply

Leonel June 25, 2011 at 4:38 pm

¡¡¡Gracias!!!

Reply

appen June 18, 2011 at 10:12 pm

it was nice, it will be beautiful

Reply

Alla M June 18, 2011 at 6:26 pm

Have a dream? Run for it! Can not run? Go for it! Can not go to it? Crawl for it! If you can not crawl to it? Lie down and stay down in the direction of dreams!

Есть мечта? Беги к ней! Не получается бежать? Иди к ней! Не получается идти к ней? Ползи к ней! Не можешь ползти к ней? Ляг и лежи в направлении мечты!!!

Reply

Christian June 18, 2011 at 7:24 am

“I never thought of it that way”

(My favorite expression to hear from other people when talking to them.)

or

“I’m home.”

(The truth of the situation)

-Christian

Reply

CARLOS June 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm

I AM NO LONGER BLIND.

Reply

aisha June 17, 2011 at 4:42 pm

“If you came to mourn my loss , then you are at the wrong place, for my remains are dancing among the living “

Reply

Liliana June 16, 2011 at 5:22 pm

Like the teardrops down the face
They run and run somewhere…
Who knows when they’ll fly up to the sky
When everybody’s done?
Or forever gone?…
No,butterflies will fill up
Every emptiness with fluttering purity…
And they’ll breathe it deeply,gracefully
Cramming hearts and eyes with dew of dreams and joy…

Reply

Maryon June 16, 2011 at 8:31 am

Be not like a stream that brawls,
loud, with shallow waterfalls,
but in quiet self-control,
link together sould and soul

Reply

naomi montana June 15, 2011 at 9:34 pm

She lives, now as always in her art.

Reply

Deepa June 15, 2011 at 5:57 pm

She was the most happiest and fulfilled person i ever knew..

Reply

Jayeeta June 15, 2011 at 4:29 pm

“As you are,so I was
as I am,so you’ll be”.

Reply

Scott June 15, 2011 at 1:42 pm

“Life goes on”

Reply

Amjad Ali June 15, 2011 at 3:54 am

Enjoy Life, Before you meet me Again !

Reply

Veera June 14, 2011 at 10:26 pm

“Been here. Had fun.” — that’d be mine =)

Reply

Laura Maria June 14, 2011 at 5:00 pm

ein Herz geht lächelnd weiter
a heart goes on smiling
un corazón anda sonriendo

Reply

Farah Koko June 14, 2011 at 7:43 am

I lived seeking for answers; I died seeking for peace.

P.S: its my birthday today and Im talking about an epitaph….hahahah funnyy

Reply

Alison June 13, 2011 at 1:55 am

Or ” Don’t be sad that it’s over, be happy that it happened”

Reply

Patricia June 13, 2011 at 1:52 am

SIN LAMENTOS

Reply

Shelane June 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm

“I do not know..”. -that would be

Reply

Luisa Basso June 11, 2011 at 4:19 am

Conociendo el ruido del mundo puedo apreciar el silencio de mi espíritu

Reply

Paula June 10, 2011 at 9:08 pm

después de tanto esperarte por fin has llegado….

Reply

Faiz June 10, 2011 at 8:59 pm

No Penny No Tension !

Reply

Mónica June 10, 2011 at 6:50 pm

Aqui descansam os excessos e desperdicios de uma alma, que um dia se chamou Mónica…

Reply

Shuang June 10, 2011 at 3:29 pm

“I remember myself.”

Reply

HECTOR June 10, 2011 at 12:41 am

“CUANDO BRINDEN ACUERDENSE DE MI”

Reply

Kátia dos Santos June 9, 2011 at 11:55 pm

vivia visitando inconscientemente o além em noites bem dormidas, hoje porém em sono eterno, visitarei outro além consciente da viagem

Reply

HECTOR June 9, 2011 at 11:53 pm

DIOS “QUE LA BUENA SUERTE ME ACOMPANE SIEMPRE”

Reply

Tijana June 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm

My journey continues

Reply

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: