Coffins Quotes - Page 8

• When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

  Mira Grant

  Kissing, Wind, Glasses

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• Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

  William Wordsworth

  Garden, Water, Labyrinth

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1983, Delphi Classics

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• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Grief, Cutting

  "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)

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• Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Promise, Tears, Atheism

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part I, Book VI, Chapter V. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 202, 1802.

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• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

  Manly Hall

  War, Book, Writing

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Diamond Jubilee Edition)". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1988.

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• Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

  Henri Cazalis

  Death, Men, Dust

  Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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

  John Burdett

  Light, Goes On, Pretending

  "Bangkok Haunts". Book by John Burdett, 2007.

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• I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

  Mem Fox

  Education, Art, Grief

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

  Joan Frank

  Women, Size, Depiction

  Joan Frank (1994). “Desperate Women Need to Talk to You”, p.51, Conari Press

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• Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Names, Ships

  Charles Dickens (1861). “The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.232

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• An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Mad, Black

  Charles Dickens (2003). “Oliver Twist”, p.53, Collector's Library

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• A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
  A nameless piece of Babyhood,
  Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
  Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Dying, Bud

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.182

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Nothing To Lose, Absurd

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• No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Vases

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• Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

  David Mamet

  Home, Persistence, Years

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

  Nancy Pearl

  Voice, Narrators, Lines

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• There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

  George Clooney

  Marriage, Church, Looks

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• Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

  Lee Strobel

  Atheism

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• The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Inspiring, British Rule In India, Nails

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• I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

  Chris Avellone

  Thinking, Games, Brain

  Source: www.pcinvasion.com

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• To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

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• The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Office, Funeral, Complaining

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.98

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• monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

  Freya Stark

  Boredom, Bed, Virtue

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.111, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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