“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
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. — Stan Dale 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
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. — Jimmy Page 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
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“The modern corporate healthcare system is a conveyor belt of sick people that are put on many potent prescription drugs that eventually… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or… — Art Pepper 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
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
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
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
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Are the coffins of love being made And we are all becoming machines In this world of madness?” — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow — Nicki Minaj 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
