99 Coffins Quotes

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

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

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

Folks always look good in their coffins.

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

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

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

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

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

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.

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

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

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

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

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

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

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.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

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!

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.