Coffins Quotes - Page 3

He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

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 turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.