memikirkan epitaph

hari ini saya sedang memikirkan kata-kata buat epitaphku. epitaph itu adalah kata-kata atau kalimat atau sesuatu yang tercatat di nisan seseorang.

memang saya lebih sering memikirkan kematian daripada pernikahan (ah, pernikahan lagi!). makanya saya sering membayang-bayangkan tulisan yang kelak tercatat di nisanku. tapi rupanya sampai saat ini saya belum menemukan yang saya rasa tepat. saya janji suatu saat saya akan menuliskannya di blog ini juga sudah menemukannya.

sebagai bentuk bayaran atas rasa bersalah saya, ini saya kopikan beberapa contoh epitaph yang terkenal.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen ~George Bernard Shaw

Pardon me for not getting up ~Ernest Hemingway

Go away -- I'm asleep. ~Joan Hackett

Finally I am becoming stupider no more ~Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician.

Here lie the ashes of Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Humorist, writer, critic, defender of human and civil rights. For her epitaph she suggested "Excuse My Dust". This memorial garden is dedicated to her noble spirit which celebrated the oneness of humankind, and to the bonds of everlasting friendship between black and Jewish people. ~From the grave of Dorothy Parker

Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. ~Benito Mussolini

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom
And Father of the University of Virginia ~Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President.

The Best is yet to come. ~Frank Sinatra, American singer.

And now we rise. And we are everywhere. ~Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter.

Through this dust these hills once spoke ~T. S. Stribling

I lie somewhere over here ~Werner Heisenberg, as in Uncertainty Principle.

Hodie mihi, cras tibi
Today for me, tomorrow for thee ~Famous Latin epitaph

Don't Try ~Poet Charles Bukowski

Never Born, Never Died—Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990.~Rajneesh

Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος (I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.) ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author.