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Quotes About Coffin

What a lure that was-the sleeping vampire who no longer bothered with the trappings of a coffin.
~ Anne Rice
The princess reiterated to Sarah that her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.
~ Anne Somerset
I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted. She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor. Can you do that? I've slept in worse places. Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
which would leave the body in its natural state." This it singularly failed to do. From time to time appalling eructations were heard coming from the coffin, and during the lying in state the smell was such that one of the attendant Swiss Guards fainted. Meanwhile, the nose fell off.
~ John Julius Norwich
Sebastien gasped first at pain like flame, then pleasure, and somehow scraped his hand through the narrow space between David's back and the lid so he could knot his fingers into David's hair. He bit his lip, and did not cry out, while they rode in the lumpy coffin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Earth rained on the bushed-copper coffin like the heating of my heart in my ears.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You must know . . . that I'm made entirely of death, from head to foot, and that it's a corpse loves you, adores you, and will never leave you, never! I'm going to have the coffin enlarged, Christine, for later, when we've come to the end of our love.
~ Gaston Leroux
Very few vampires bother to sleep in a coffin, if you must know. Lugging one around everywhere you go is inconvenient, and it almost always attracts the wrong kind of attention. I did know a vampire who had one, but it was mostly a kinky sex thing for her.)
~ Gene Doucette
I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
~ Brandi Carlile
The third-class funeral is a shabby one and costs only a hundred dollars. The weather is cold and foggy. The coffin has no catafalque. There are two horses and two reverends. Not a carriage in sight.
~ Sholem Aleichem
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
~ John Philpot Curran
Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down.
~ John Rechy
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.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
~ Emilie Autumn
I shouldered a kind of manhoodstepping in to lift the coffinsof dead relations.
~ Seamus Heaney
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
Even today I'm not above writing slightly more sophisticated versions of [I Was a Teenage Graverobber]; I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin, that's all. If you disapprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.
~ Stephen King
I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin, that's all.
~ Stephen King
The men dug some way down, I believe they struck the coffin." "Excellent. We can deal with it now. George here is good with a spade, aren't you George?" "Well I certainly get plenty of practice." George said.
~ Jonathan Stroud
This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.
~ Bela Lugosi (Ed Wood)
So instead of telling the truth about Oswald, LBJ twisted it, standing on JFK's coffin to ram through his legislative agenda.
~ Ben Shapiro
I've likened Mignolet to worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
with the yellow fingers from the coffin nails they smoked
~ Sebastian Barry
Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko