Coffin Quote by Rick Santorum

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can…

— Tricky

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately…

— Robertson Davies

When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I remember the day before my dad died, I was in a hospital room with him, and he had lived a long life. He…

— Andy Kim

I looked at death in the face once...and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

— Anonymous

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I…

— Tommy Douglas

“The first thing I remember my grandmother saying was, “I will bury all of you!”

— Charles Bukowski

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

— Woody Allen

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature;…

— Louise Glück

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

— Virgil van Dijk

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the…

— Chief Joseph

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular…

— William Faulkner