One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

— John Philpot Curran

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose…

— Carson McCullers

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

— Lee Strobel

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

— Tove Ditlevsen

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

— Pierre Boulez

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,…

— Walter Dean Myers

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…

— Margaret Atwood

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think…

— Alexandra Fuller

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

— Sherman Alexie

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

— Dan Rice

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people…

— Nick Vujicic

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky