Coffin Quotes

“If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.

This is no unusual configuration among our kind-the sad old building, my title to it, or the cellar room cut off from the world above by iron doors no mortal could independently seek to lift.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.”
― Munia Khan

“Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city”
― Janet Frame, Scented Gardens for the Blind

“Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.”
― Anthony Liccione

“[...] a życie to tylko tarzanie się między łóżkiem a trumną [...]”
― Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente