A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
“Ollie watched the cemetery disappear in the distance and wondered if there would be enough trees in all of Britain to build… — Alan Hlad Copy Share Image
“sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.” — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. — Stan Dale Copy Share Image
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say. — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“How may we be saints and live in golden coffins Who will leave on our stone shelves pathetic notes for intervention How… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop.… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
