Here Lies Quotes

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
- Aristotle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle

Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the gave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
- Glenn Beck

Sometimes I went and looked at my grave. The stone was up already. It was a simple Latin cross, white. I wanted to have my name put on it, with the here lies and the date of my birth. Then all it would have wanted was the date of my death. They would not let me. Sometimes I smiled, as if I were dead already.
- Samuel Beckett

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
- Albert Camus

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
- Aphra Behn

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
- E M Forster

Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.
- William Shakespeare

Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
- William Shakespeare

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
- William Shakespeare

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
- William Shakespeare

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.
- Tom Bosley

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
- Bertolt Brecht

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
- Jean De La Bruyere

here lies a stupid son of a bitch who tried to make Death a company cop
- William S Burroughs

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
- David Byrne

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
- Paul Cezanne

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
- Bertrand Russell

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
- Charles Churchill

Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
- Adam Selzer

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
- Robert Collier

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
- John Connolly

Here lies Howard Campbell's essence,
Freed from his body's noisome nuisance.
His body, empty, prowls the earth,
Earning what a body's worth.
If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart
- Kurt Vonnegut

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- Joan Didion

HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER

P.I.P.
- Wendelin Van Draanen

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
- Milan Kundera

Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.
Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright
The coming pest with border fortresses,
Or catch your carp with subtle argument.
All force is twain in one: cause is not cause
Unless effect be there; and action's self
Must needs contain a passive. So command
Exists but with obedience.
- George Eliot

In your darkest hour always there lies the truth awakening your soul with the dawn of light. Never let fear over shadow your destiny.
- Poetic Evolution

Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia.
- W C Fields

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
- W C Fields

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
- Matthew Fox

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
- Viktor E Frankl

Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
- Jeaniene Frost

...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
- Jeaniene Frost

This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it.
- Sylvia Plath

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
- Auberon Herbert

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
- Anne Hutchinson

Before I die, I want to change my name to "Here," so that my tombstone could simply read, "Here lies." And then people who knew me could walk by, shake their head, and say, "Ain't that the truth.
- Jarod Kintz

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
- John Keats

Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!
- Herman Melville

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
- Herman Melville

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
- David Low

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
- Antonio Machado

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.
- Roger Mahony

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
- Saadat Hasan Manto

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
- Kate Morton

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
- Paul Newman

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
- Ovid

HERE LIES BROM
Who was
A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
Son of Holcomb and Nelda
Beloved of Selena
Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
Founder of the Varden
And Bane of the Forsworn.
May his name live on in glory.
Stydja unin mo'ranr
- Christopher Paolini

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
- Evita Peron

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.
- Matt Ridley

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
- Julius Schwartz

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
- Clifford D Simak

With me: one minus one = one; with you: it's zero. Here lies the only difference.
- Dejan Stojanovic

Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
- H G Wells