Gravestone Quotes

• When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Said
  • Achievements
  • Asked

• The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Past
  • Illusion
  • Cemetery

• On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Here
  • Singer
  • Presenter

• My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Say
  • Here
  • Gravestone

• 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
  • Important
  • Identity
  • Lying

• You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

  

  Bette Davis
  • Gravestone
  • Hard Way

• 'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Learn
  • Lines
  • Gravestone