Quotes about casket (16 Quotes)


    According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.


    Embalm, v. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.


    Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket safe, dark, motionless, airless it will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. (Clive Staples


    John G. Roberts, Jr. took hold of his former bosss casket along with seven other former law clerks as they strode up the steps of the Supreme Court, ... Each of them seemed deep in thought each struggling a bit to walk up the same grand marble steps that Roberts spoke so eloquently about that night in July when he was first nominated for Justice Sandra Day OConnors spot.


    There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casketsafe, dark, motionless, airlessit will change. It will not be broken it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. (Clive Staples


    We didn't know if she had died or was still alive and had been transferred to the Superdome. We didn't even get to see her body. It was a closed casket. That was pretty hard on me. I really looked up to her.

    I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.

    The price is typically predicated by the cost of doing business in an area. However, there usually is a significant price difference between buying a casket at a funeral home and buying one at Costco.

    Still, for the writers in this book, hope springs eternal. In her journal-style essay, Gray documents many moments of despair during the 14 years it took to get her movie on the screen. How low can you go ... There I was at dinner, asking my brother to find some way to create a job for me in his casket business.

    It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

    In the large ancestral home, he lived in one room and the body was kept in another one. He had made it clear to us that the body should be buried only after his death. He was so eccentric that he would not allow anybody to even look at the glass casket in which the body was kept.

    I doubt very seriously that any of those that oppose this bill ... had ever had the experience of standing over their grandson's casket and kissing him on the cheek and telling him good-bye, knowing that the state of Alabama doesn't even recognize that he



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