Top 40 Coffin Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Coffin Quotes from famous people such as Roger Moore, Nathaniel Philbrick, Rick Santorum, Joe Baca, Nick Vujicic, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the

If you don’t have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.
Roger Moore
Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There’s a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for ‘Moby-Dick’: ‘Miriam Coffin’ by Joseph Hart.
Nathaniel Philbrick
I’ll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, ‘Those hands dug freedom for me.’
Rick Santorum
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
Joe Baca
At my funeral, if one said, ‘Nick was a generous person,’ trust me I won’t be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.
Nick Vujicic
If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I’m obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin – will it match my dress? That’s when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.
Kris Carr
My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don’t think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances.
Prince Harry
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
T. C. Boyle
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Bertolt Brecht
To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
Michael Beschloss
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.
Peter Bergen
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted – Daddy’s was rifle green. Beautifully made.
Joanna Lumley
As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.
Al Sharpton
I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists – I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.
Nigel Pearson
I’m not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I’ll still be singing when they’re nailing down my coffin.
Pixie Lott
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
John Philpot Curran
When I die, I’ll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
Rick Wakeman
I’ll believe I made it when I’m 100 years old, I’m still able to get work, and they’re about to put me in a coffin, and I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, OK, it went all right.’ But until then, I’m not saying it.
Timothy Simons
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
Ben Shapiro
I love the tour bunks. I can sleep like a baby in those bunks. It really doesn’t bother me at all. A lot of people have a difficult time – they’re like, ‘It’s like a coffin.’ I get in there and I just pass out. You can’t even wake me up.
Joe Jonas
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the ’90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That’s a pretty big deal.
Glenn Danzig
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn’t going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
Felix Dennis
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.
Ann Hood
I didn’t want ‘Hotel Transylvania’ to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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.
Tobe Hooper
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box… ballet or coffin.
Claiborne Pell
I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that’s what frightened me.
Ruby Bridges
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
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.
Anne Rice
I realized that, when you’re 18, your world is wide open. But as each year passes, one more nail goes into the coffin, killing you dreams and aspirations. And by the time you reach 25, you’ve been beaten down and become a realist. And my advice is you can’t let these things get you down.
Paul Zane Pilzer
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first sho

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There’s no more nagging, no more pain!
William Morris Hunt
That’s a very scary thing to think about, being trapped in a coffin.
Alexandra Daddario
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.
Tricky
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
I don’t want to own anything that won’t fit into my coffin.
Fred Allen
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.
William Shawcross
An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant’s head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.
Elizabeth McCracken
If someone asked me if I would be interested in doing a Hindi film, I would not say no. There were offers in the past, but something about ‘Karwaan’ just called out to me. The storyline of three unique characters in a van with a coffin seemed fresh, and I got a good vibe from the team.
Dulquer Salmaan