Top 100 Here Lies Sayings
#1. My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!
Alicia Witt
#2. But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism
Kelly Jensen
#3. And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
Phil Ochs
#4. Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
Oliver Goldsmith
#5. My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
Damon Lindelof
#6. Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
Ogden Nash
#7. I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.
John Adams
#8. Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#9. You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says 'look here, look here,' the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that's exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.
Ali Sheikh
#10. Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.
Belle Starr
#11. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#12. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]
Johannes Kepler
#13. Here lies Valkyrie Cain, who died heroically after falling of a train." At least it rhymed.
Derek Landy
#14. HERE LIES BROM
Who was a Dragon Rider
And like a father
To me.
May his name live on in glory.
Christopher Paolini
#15. Here lies Kate Kane, killed in a foreplay accident. Beloved daughter. Sorely missed.
Alexis Hall
#16. Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.
Groucho Marx
#17. Here he lies like something melting away. His mother's blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.
Aeschylus
#18. There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'
Nelson Mandela
#19. Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
Robert Herrick
#20. Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times ... To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#22. One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
John Burroughs
#23. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
Anonymous
#24. Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.
Leonard Matlovich
#25. For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached - yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.
Rabindranath Tagore
#26. In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here
to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#27. Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.
James Joyce
#28. Here lies W.C.Fields. I'd rather be living in Philadelphia.
W.C. Fields
#29. Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#30. I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair
But mocks the steady running of the hour
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here
Wilfred Owen
#31. Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here.
Billy Graham
#32. Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.
Rene Denfeld
#33. People shouldn't lie to each other to begin with. People shouldn't have to fear hell in order to tell the truth. They should fear that their lies will ruin relationships or get them in trouble, here now, on Earth, with the people they love.
Renee Carlino
#34. The library has a robust collection of what I call non-cuddly hate lit. This is one of my favorite things about working here: If you believe censorship is poison, here lies paradise.
Josh Hanagarne
#35. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.
Americo Paredes
#36. The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here
Seth Godin
#37. This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me
Scotty McCreery
#38. It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us - embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.
Jim Wallis
#39. Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
Thomas Carlyle
#40. Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little space for the necessary insertion of inventions, which would here appear to be lies.
A.S. Byatt
#42. This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
Benito Mussolini
#44. We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry.
Scott Lynch
#45. And this right here is what love is. It's not hurried and rushed, not lies and deceit. It's tender and giving, honest and trusting. It's the value of actions speaking louder than words.
Tiffany Aleman
#46. Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.
Rebecca West
#47. Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
George MacDonald
#48. I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.
Robert Walser
#49. 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
#50. As long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.
Paul Auster
#51. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
Robert Forman Horton
#52. I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Henry Louis Gates
#53. I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
Ellen Hopkins
#54. O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the shale,
and purple wings
of little winter-butterflies
say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.
Hilda Doolittle
#55. I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination.
Rex Pickett
#57. He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.
Peter Benchley
#58. I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
Ian McKellen
#59. This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
John Bunyan
#60. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.
Tatsumi Hijikata
#61. I don't love or hate humans. I respect them. They shape themselves, in a way that we angels do not. They tell lies and sleep around and curse, and they try to define themselves so valiantly. Who am I? they keep asking. Why am I here?
Cynthia Hand
#62. Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
William Shakespeare
#63. When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Yiyun Li
#64. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Samuel Johnson
#65. One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
Philip Yancey
#66. Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody.
K.J. Parker
#67. We're going to be okay.
Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
Ally Carter
#68. Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.
Georgia Harkness
#69. The ideal conditions that you are looking for don't exist. We shall never be able to get rid of certain defects.
The trick lies in knowing that despite all your flaws you have a reason for being here, and you have to honor that reason.
Paulo Coelho
#70. But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
Cesare Pavese
#71. Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
John Dryden
#72. Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
Aphra Behn
#74. Clouds of linnets bounce, half-midges, half musical notation, along the hedges surrounding my old home, and all is out of sorts as far as that notion of home lies because my father isn't here.
Helen Macdonald
#75. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18
Rudyard Kipling
#76. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.
Mark Buchanan
#77. O cruel cloudless space,
And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies!
Why do we feel restored
As in a sacramental place?
Here Mystery is artifice,
And here a vision of such peace is stored,
Healing flows from it through our eyes.
May Sarton
#78. Here lies the girl whose only crutch
Was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do
I'm gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two.
The Band Perry
#79. Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
Nevill Francis Mott
#80. Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell's. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.
Mark Hodder
#81. If we have any power to console the weary, it is the result of our remembrance of what we once suffered, - for here lies our power to sympathize.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#83. A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.
A.W. Tozer
#84. Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
Andrew Carnegie
#85. I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
Paul Newman
#86. There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#87. Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past
Bob Dylan
#88. Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W.C. Fields
#89. A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
Robert Silverberg
#90. Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you.
Already, I can see my epitaph. Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.
Manil Suri
#91. I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the
downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
Thaddeus Stevens
#92. Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.
John Tyler
#93. She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
Jodi Picoult
#94. We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more
God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. We are here to say most fundamentally, no more inhumanity in the name of our nation.
Rocky Anderson
#95. We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. - Adrian
Donna Galanti
#96. Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low
#97. On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
Cilla Black
#98. They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can have: Every truth can be changed through our own intelligence! Trust human mind, trust science, and this is a golden faith! Your salvation lies in here, definitely in no other place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. Here I am, precious. I give myself freely. All of me, Alayna. No more walls or secrets or games or lies. I give you all of me, honestly. For forever, if you'll take me.
Laurelin Paige
#100. Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
Sholom Aleichem
