Coffins Quotes

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

— James Hunter

In temple, in the pubs and in coffins all men are equal.

— Vikrant Parsai

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

— Dana Gould

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

— Sherman Alexie

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

— Terry Pratchett

You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!

— Gerard Way

“We all grow into our coffins, Danny. And I saw myself growing into mine.”

— Fiona Mozley

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

— Anne Sexton

“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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Jim Morrison

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

— Aesop Rock

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

— Anonymous

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they…

— Meg Cabot

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks…

— Anonymous

“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden…

— Carl Abrahamsson

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in…

— Natalie Standiford

“Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are…

— Hans Fallada

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . .…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“You scroll through a window of coffins. Think about it, each person fits in a 1080 x 1080 frame. It feels like…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there…

— Bruce Lee

Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or…

— Art Pepper

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries,…

— William Wordsworth

I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age…

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

— Alexandra Fuller

“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly…

— Janet Frame

“Grimaud left the chamber, and led the way to the hall, where, according to the custom of the province, the body was…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't…

— Zora Neale Hurston

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

— John Philpot Curran

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

— Anonymous

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

— Henri Cazalis

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

— Mark Antony

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

— Ray Wilkins

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

— Bette Davis