Top 100 Quotes About Coffins
#1. The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.
F. Ross Johnson
#2. It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive
Bhikkhu Bodhi
#3. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.
Seanan McGuire
#5. He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?
Sally Gardner
#6. The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.
Margaret Atwood
#7. One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.
Ernest Bramah
#8. Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.
Nick Offerman
#9. I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
Susan Hill
#10. Even superheroes make mistakes, or they wouldn't have to be buried in handmade coffins in the sandbox.
Nora Roberts
#11. Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.
Chirlane McCray
#12. I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.
Red Skelton
#13. Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and cops and robbers, children were now playing army vs. Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
#14. I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
Joanna Lumley
#15. I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
Joanna Lumley
#16. Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.
Brian Selznick
#17. I decided that it was like the difference between the beautiful old Godsend graves and the new ones open to receive coffins (which I never can bear to look at); that time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith
#18. Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.
Thomas Mann
#20. building in there? Coffins. Lots and lots
Rhys Bowen
#21. When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
Dana Gould
#22. Time heals.
No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.
Karen Marie Moning
#23. High above, the rafters were made of old wood, and sturdy as the mountain the house had been built on, and across the way, sixteen coffins were stacked one upon the next, as if they were nothing but moving boxes from U-Haul. The
J.R. Ward
#24. The coffins are really for us. The organization surpasses itself in that kind of thing.
Erich Maria Remarque
#25. It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.
Meg Cabot
#26. How may we be saints and live in golden coffins
Who will leave on our stone shelves
pathetic notes for intervention
How may we be calm marble gods at ocean altars
Who will murder us for some high reason
Leonard Cohen
#27. I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#28. It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading.
The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
Alice Munro
#30. shade of their ancestors' houses of bones; and their ancestors may return the favor of a visit: coffins sometimes float in the streets during bad floods.
Jimmy Fox
#31. I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.
Mem Fox
#32. The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.
Paul G. Tremblay
#33. I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.
Anne Rice
#34. Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want?
Huston Smith
#35. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.
Anthony Liccione
#36. Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.
Jenny Downham
#37. I have made my bed
In charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. (P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
Gayle Forman
#39. But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents.
Gregory Maguire
#40. In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#42. Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins.
James Dashner
#43. The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
Peter O'Toole
#44. We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
John Steinbeck
#45. You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal coffins to "protect" them. From what?
Carl Abrahamsson
#46. She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.
Hannah Kent
#47. I was
the girl of the chain letter,
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
the one of the telephone bills,
the wrinkled photo and the lost connections ...
Anne Sexton
#48. Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.
Terry Pratchett
#49. All of the hot-dog stands were boarded up with strips of golden planking, sealing in all the mustard, onion, meat odors of the long, joyful summer. It was like nailing summer into a series of coffins.
Ray Bradbury
#50. My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
Rachel Joyce
#51. We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil.
Amy Plum
#52. If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.
William Irwin Thompson
#53. I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
Robert Winston
#54. Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.
Nancy Pearl
#55. Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
Stan Dale
#56. She had bought several plain pine chests to use as love seats or boot boxes, but they came to look to her more and more like children's coffins, so she returned them.
Lorrie Moore
#57. It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company.
Billie-Jo Williams
#58. If corpses were still able to buy things, the inside of coffins would have been turned into advertising space a long time ago.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#59. I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.
Brigid Brannagh
#60. A rut ... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.
James Hunter
#62. Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night.
Natalie Standiford
#64. Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
#65. Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
Charles Dickens
#66. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
John Wolcot
#67. Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Alexander Smith
#68. For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.
Pierre Boulez
#69. It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF ... It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
Steven Tyler
#70. When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.
Jeanne Calment
#72. I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.
Ozzy Osbourne
#73. Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
Freya Stark
#74. No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
Jimmy Page
#75. Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.
Aesop Rock
#76. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar
Mark Antony
#77. Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.
Dan Rice
#78. He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.
Simon Mignolet
#79. A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.
Audie Cornish
#80. As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.
Charles L. Allen
#81. Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.
Rachel Zoe
#82. When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."
Leo Tolstoy
#83. Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.
Lee Strobel
#84. A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.
Leo Burnett
#85. Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#86. There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage ... In the movies.
George Clooney
#87. You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
Joe Orton
#88. SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
Ambrose Bierce
#89. I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
J. Patrick Lewis
#90. We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
Anne Sexton
#92. He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
Oliver Goldsmith
#93. The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase
our coffin.
Charles Caleb Colton
#94. I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
Bill Jay
#97. He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#98. When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
John Burdett
#99. Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.
Michelle Zink
#100. My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
Morgan Freeman
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