Coffins Quotes · Page 3

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

— Ernest Hemingway

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

— Ozzy Osbourne

The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

— Lech Walesa

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

— C. S. Lewis

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

— Anonymous

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

— J. Patrick Lewis

“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.”

— Edwidge Danticat

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

— John Wolcot

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

— F. Ross Johnson

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

— Joanna Lumley

'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of…

— Zhuangzi

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's…

— MC Lyte

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically ,…

— Ayn Rand

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I'm like, "I haven't had a…

— Lzzy Hale

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into…

— Brian Selznick

All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but…

— Herbert Lockyer

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from…

— Tobe Hooper

I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days.…

— Dara Wier

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold…

— Charles Dickens

Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair…

— Oscar Wilde

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want…

— Anonymous

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only…

— Alain de Botton

You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and…

— Alice Walker

...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real…

— Barbara G. Walker

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel…

— Junot Díaz

“Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like…

— George Clooney

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

— Anne Sexton

“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

— Aesop Rock

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

— Jim Morrison

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

— Anonymous

We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

— Michael Morpurgo