Coffins Quotes - Page 2

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

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

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 by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

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

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

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

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

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 shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying