Coffins Quotes

152 Coffins quotes by 141 unique authors

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle… — William Wordsworth
In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are… — Alan Coren
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. — H. L. Mencken
If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. — Roger Moore
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had… — Walter Dean Myers
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. — Peter O'Toole
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be… — Ville Valo
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! — Rick Wakeman
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible,… — Robert Winston
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. — Sherman Alexie
i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol… — E E Cummings
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, â€˜When youâ€™re readyâ€™. — David Mitchell
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide. — Daniel Handler
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars… — Brian Selznick
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1)… — David Letterman
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 into… — Margaret Atwood
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be… — Lois McMaster Bujold

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