Hi guys, i was thinking about music, life and its ultimate end (death) and some of the worlds famous epitaphs on famous tombs around the world. here are some of the funny ones i found.


Here lies my wife,
Here lies she;
Hallelujah!
Hallelujee!
In a Leeds graveyard [1861]

"I told you I was sick!"
In a Georgia cemetery

The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery





Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery

Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery

I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont

Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont

Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest man.
And that is Strange.
A lawyer’s tombstone in England

Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young

Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising
In Ruidoso, New Mexico

Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann
Dec. 8, 1767




Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up And no place to go.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery

"The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra tomb in new york

"This is the last of Earth! I am content!"
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

"Well this was fun, let's do it again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)

"That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epithaph is the trademark line of cartoon character Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)

"Don't Try"
Charles Bukowski

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill

"She did it the hard way"
Bette Davis

"Nothing's So Sacred As Honor And Nothing's So Loyal As Love"
Wyatt Earp

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost

"Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
W. B. Yeats

"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx

"Truth to your own spirit"
Jim Morrison

"Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho

"Curiosity did not kill this cat."
Studs Terkel

"I told you so, you damned fools."
H. G. Wells

"Against you I will fling myself unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
Virginia Woolf


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Great meaning lies beneath those words! All of them.

"Free at last. Free at last"

"I told you i was sick"

"Pardon me for not rising"

"Never born. Never died. He visited the earth..."

Strong, heavy words of wisdom and summarized biography. Well captured. Well interpreted!

Ayrton Senna
(Extracted from the Holy Bible)
"Nada pode me separar do amor de Deus"
Translation: "Nothing can separate me from the love of God"

Clyde Barrow (unknown) - 1909 - 1934
"Gone but not forgotten."
Buried beside, and sharing a tombstone with, his brother Marvin (aka "Buck".
Outlaw, bank robber and partner of Bonnie Parker

Hilaire Belloc (unknown) - 1870 - 1953
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

John Belushi (unknown) - 1949 - 1982
"I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on"

Jakob Bernoulli (by himself) - 1654-1705
"Eadem mutata resurgo"
Translation: "Though changed I shall arise the same"
Referring to the accompanying inscription of a logarithmic spiral, which remains the same after mathematical transformations. He considered it a symbol of resurrection. CLARIFICATION: Bernoulli called the logarithmic spiral Spira mirabilis, "the marvelous spiral", and wanted one engraved on his headstone. Unfortunately, an Archimedean spiral was placed there instead


William Bligh (unknown) - 1754 - 1817
"Sacred
To The Memory Of
William Bligh, Esquire F.R.S.
Vice Admiral Of The Blue,
The Celebrated Navigator
Who First Transplanted The Breadfruit Tree
From Otahette To The West Indies,
Bravely fought The Battles Of His Country
And Died Beloved, Respected, And Lamented
On The 7th Day Of December, 1817
Aged 64"

Ludwig Boltzmann (by himself) - 1844-1906
"S = k log W"
The formula for entropy of a system. Boltzmann committed suicide after failing to convince contemporary scientists of the validity of the formula. Grave in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna.
John Brown (unknown)
"Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!
John Brown is filling his last cavity."

Charles Bukowski (by himself)
"Don't Try"

Samuel Butler (by Samuel Wesley) - 1612-1680
"While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive,
No generous patron would a dinner give;
See him, when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust,
Presented with a monumental bust.
The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,
He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone."

Al Capone (by himself)
"My Jesus, mercy"

George Carlin (suggested by himself)
"Jeez, he was just here a minute ago."

Andrew Carnegie (unknown)
"Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself."

Karen Carpenter (unknown)
"A star on Earth--a star in Heaven"

George Washington Carver (unknown)
"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."

Walter Chiari (by himself)
"O friends, don't cry - it's just unused sleep."

Brian Cawley (by himself)
"Hurray, no more Council Tax"


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From: ft.apache on 6/27/2008 (S598b)
In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me.

To which, someone replied by writing
on the tombstone:
To follow you, I'll not consent.
Until I know, which way you went!

From: LABLaughsClean on 11/25/2004 (S410b)
Source: The New York Times
He was a simple man who died of complications

He came into the world without my consent
and left in the same manner

Stranger, tread this ground with gravity
Dentist Brown is filling his own cavity

Here lies my wife.
Here let her lie!
Now she's at rest
And so am I

From a graveyard in Aberdeen, Scotland
Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte
Born a virgin, died a harlot
She was aye a virgin at seventeen
A remarkable thing in Aberdeen