Coffin Quotes
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A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.
— Leo Burnett
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
— Lemony Snicket
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
— William Sloane Coffin
Hot afternoonthe squeak of my hands
on my daughter's coffin — Lenard D. Moore
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
— William Sloane Coffin Jr.
Fear is a real enemy. What does it do?It buys our coffin long before we are destined to die. — Sri Chinmoy
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
— William Sloane Coffin
His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth.
— Allyse Near
She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.
— Sherman Alexie
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
— Erich Maria Remarque
Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
— William Sloane Coffin
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
— Oliver Goldsmith
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
— William Sloane Coffin
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.
— Kurt Tucholsky
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
— William Sloane Coffin
Martin's coffin when the man toppled over, dead before he hit the floor. His back
— Marvin W. Bronson
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
— William Sloane Coffin
I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.
— Brigid Brannagh
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
— J. Patrick Lewis
It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy, Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
— Robert Goolrick
We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin
— Ray Wilkins
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
— Alexander Smith
Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.
— Rosamund Lupton
The dictates of humanity came in opposition to the law of the land, and we ignored the law.
— Levi Coffin
The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
— William Sloane Coffin
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
— William Sloane Coffin
So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire's coffin? - Shella
— Krista Alasti
Love is in the giver, not the gift.
— William Sloane Coffin
Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories.
— Maria V. Snyder
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
— Jimmy Page
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
— William Sloane Coffin
I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.
— William Sloane Coffin
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
— Bette Davis
He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn't dead.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
— William Sloane Coffin
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
We want God to be strong, so that we can be weak. But He wants to be weak so that we can be strong.
— William Sloane Coffin
...there is more mercy in God than sin in us.
— William Sloane Coffin
It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours.
— R.K. Lilley
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
— Michael Beschloss
Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek?
— David Wellington
Driving a car is like driving your own coffin
— Thabiso Monkoe
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
— Rick Wakeman
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
— Martin Luther
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
— William Sloane Coffin
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
— William Sloane Coffin Jr.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin. — Chuck Palahniuk
You've gotsome 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son. — Richard Brautigan
If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
— William Sloane Coffin
Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
— Jim Morrison
Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.
— Christopher Farnsworth
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'.
— David Mitchell
The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
— Jerry Coleman
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.
— Munia Khan
Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize.
— William Sloane Coffin
Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.
— Dominic Smith
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
— William Sloane Coffin
I'm going be that n-n-nail in your coffin
— Karen Marie Moning
Death is only attractive in a fashionable dress, with lilies and an open coffin.
— Laura L. Sullivan
It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
— William Sloane Coffin
Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.
— Pierre Coffin
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
— Lech Walesa
Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.
— Cornel West
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
All of life is the exercise of risk.
— William Sloane Coffin
Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.
— Todd Lowe
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
— William Sloane Coffin
The humility that comes as we surrender to the circumstances of whatever challenges face us becomes our greatest ally for transformation. Trust
— Bonnie Glass-Coffin
A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
— William Sloane Coffin
