Coffins Quotes - Page 2

• If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

  Roger Moore

  Nails, May, Humour

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• 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 before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Strong, Hands

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

  Emily Bronte

  Hard Work, Air, Digging

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.571, Penguin

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• The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

  Peter O'Toole

  Exercise, Behinds, Walking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Soul, Body, Human Nature

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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

  Stephen King

  Night, Built

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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

  Tove Ditlevsen

  Long, Childhood

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

  Jimmy Page

  Zeppelins, Daylight, Hours

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• The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Lying, Looks

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• More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

  Geoffrey Rush

  People, Funeral, Eulogy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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 cremated.

  Ville Valo

  Falling In Love, Heart, Love Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Theatre, Alarms, Legs

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• Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Band

  "Green Day's Punk Opera". Interview with Mitchell Peters, www.billboard.com. April 30, 2009.

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• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Answers, Barbarians, Poor

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• 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."

  Leo Tolstoy

  Women, Feet, Graves

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

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Contentment, Enough

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.73

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• The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.221

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Dark, What Is Love

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

  Bruce Lee

  Maturity, Discovery, Long

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 131), 1996.

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

  Gerard Way

  Sleep, Past

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• Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

  Nicki Minaj

  Bad Ass, Hoe, Littles

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• I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

  Maurice Baring

  Wise, Pain, Brave

  Maurice Baring (1909). “Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches”

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• The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Smallest

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

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Looks

  Source: www.levity.com

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• (P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

  Gayle Forman

  Wind, Good Intentions, Boxes

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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