Coffins Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Doe, Want, Sentimental

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• I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Moving, Past, Serial Killer

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Nails, Economics, Propaganda

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.281, Penguin

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• With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Lazy, Cubicles

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  I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

  Axl Rose

  Sorry, Gold, Half

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• I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave.

  Dara Wier

  Mean, Thinking, Games

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• 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.

  Jeanne Calment

  Daughter, Grandchildren, Want

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• The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Sweet, Wall

  Henry Miller (1963). “Black spring”, Grove Pr

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• The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, New Orleans, Oysters

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 2, 2012.

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• To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Animal, Views

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• 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?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Light, People, Razors

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  F. Ross Johnson

  Lawyer

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

  Nick Offerman

  Men, Ideas, Building

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

  Ernest Bramah

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.521, e-artnow

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• A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

  Leo Burnett

  Doors, Speak, Daring

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• We are America.
  We are the coffin fillers.
  We are the grocers of death.
  We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

  Anne Sexton

  America, United States, Cauliflower

  Anne Sexton, “The Firebombers”

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• I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Fear, Mirrors, Hair

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• 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.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Giving, Bouquets

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• I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going to be lifeless food for worms in a coffin someday. But at the same time, I feel like knowing that you’re going to die can be an incredibly rewarding, powerful knowledge. It inspires us to live in ways that we wouldn’t if we were ignorant. I feel like that has inspired me to care about every breath. For me it’s not a morbid curiosity, it’s just wanting to make sure that every moment I have here on the Earth while I am breathing is accounted for.

  Jon Foreman

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Grandfather, Remember, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

  Audie Cornish

  People, Magazines, Alive

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Gratitude, Flower

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• We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

  Ray Wilkins

  Soccer, Hammers, Funny Soccer

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• The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.

  Bret Michaels

  Hate, Careers, People

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