Coffins Quotes - Page 4

• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  Seamus Heaney

  Strong, Tree, Heaven

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• Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

  Mark Batterson

  Jesus, Purpose, Safe

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• Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

  Art Pepper

  Running, Women, Bad Ass

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• My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

  Busta Rhymes

  Real, Ideas, People

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• At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

  Nick Vujicic

  Vanity, People, Goal

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• There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

  Tod Goldberg

  Spring, Native American, Airports

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Heart, Names, Tree

  William Irwin Thompson (1978). “Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future”, Anchor Books

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Phones, Bakers, Wake Up

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Cameras, Camera Obscura

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• For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

  Pierre Boulez

  Curiosity, Curious, Ifs

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• Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Tennis, Soul, Trying

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• My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Strange Places, Sailor, Reason Why

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I was
  the girl of the chain letter,
  the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
  the one of the telephone bills,
  the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Connections, Letters

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• I have made my bed
  In charnels and on coffins, where black death
  Keeps record of the trophies won

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Black, Records, Trophies

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816). “Alastor; or, The spirit of solitude: and other poems. Facs. repr”, p.3

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• Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Evil, Clay

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• I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

  Brandi Carlile

  Wine, Sleep, Air

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
  And every grin so merry draws one out.

  John Wolcot

  Healing, Doubt, Nails

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Memories, Justice, Cracks

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• 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.

  Simon Mignolet

  Football, League, Lines

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

  Charles L. Allen

  Men, Rooms

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
  But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

  Aesop Rock

  Armchairs, Draws

  Song: Tetra, Album: Skelethon, 2012

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• Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Real, Beer, Glasses

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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

  Jim Morrison

  America, Cameras, Scene

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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

  Todd Lowe

  Father, Grandfather, Bears

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