Top 214 Coffin Quotes & Sayings

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time." "I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin." Just then my door creaked open. Billy's expression turned to surprise. "Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh...we are making up lyrics to a song." But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested. "You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it." "It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too.

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

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

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

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

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

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

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.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

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

In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.

If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda the organization.

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

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

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

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

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

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

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

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

That's a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

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

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

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

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

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

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

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

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

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.

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

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

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

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.

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

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

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

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

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

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

When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can come and see the person. And her coffin was next to my room, so I used to go in and stand on a chair and look at her. You know, it's open coffin and stuff.

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

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

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

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.