Coffins Quotes

152 Coffins quotes by 141 unique authors

I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out… — Jennifer McMahon
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about… — Charles Dickens
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in… — Chuck Palahniuk
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of… — Fernando Pessoa
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing… — Herman Melville
Whenever I canâ€™t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend Iâ€™ve been assassinated. Iâ€™ve found this is the best way to get… — Chuck Klosterman
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm… — Toni Morrison
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death… — Jerry Seinfeld
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes… — Victor Hugo
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 we… — Alexandra Fuller
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"… — Sue Monk Kidd
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin. — Chuck Palahniuk
The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites. — Aleister Crowley
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the… — Karen Marie Moning
But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting… — Rick Riordan
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have… — Jenny Downham
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of… — T.E. Lawrence
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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