Coffins Quotes

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Flower, Humor

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• The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Legends, Way

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• Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

  Chirlane McCray

  People, Labels, Boxes

  "Chirlane McCray: From Gay Trailblazer to Politician's Wife". Interview with Linda Villarosa, www.essence.com. May, 09, 2013.

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• Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

  Stan Dale

  Stay Strong, Comfort, Dies

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

  Dana Gould

  Found

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• I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Advice, Quality, Pay

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

  Steven Tyler

  Carrie

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• My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, White, House

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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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• Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Orthodoxy, Cradle, Heresy

  Robert Green Ingersoll “Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'”, Library of Alexandria

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• His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

  John Philpot Curran

  Sarcastic, Silver, His Smile

  Of Sir Robert Peel's smile. Quoted by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons, 26 Feb 1835.

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

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lying, Protect

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.52, Random House

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• To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

  Michael Beschloss

  Fathers Day, Boys, People

  "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.

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• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Animal, Broken

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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