Caskets 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.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Motivational, Death

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

  Tupac Shakur

  Asking For Forgiveness, This Life, Witness

  Song: Unconditional Love

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• The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Night, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

  Cleveland Amory

  Men, Class, People

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• 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.

  Lou Duva

  Fighting, Yelling, Umpires

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• When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

  Jim Bishop

  Patience, Two, Car

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Animal, Broken

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Keys, Two

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Winter's Tales”, p.334, Penguin UK

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• As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

  Eric Bogosian

  Hitting, Dirt, Forgotten

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Dark, What Is Love

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others were not. But women are more resilient than given credit for. And some women, well, let's just say their oppressors had better watch out. I, too, am resilient, and I'm tired of being oppressed.

  Rebecca

  Girl, Tired, Men

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• I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

  Ice Cube

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

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• A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Golden, Dross

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

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• Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Average, Funeral

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• Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

  Tryon Edwards

  Children, Book, Hands

  Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Stuff, Idiot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

  Belle Starr

  Sympathy, Regret, Lying

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• I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Believe, Students

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• My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

  Mel Brooks

  Hands, Genius, Done

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• And I hope that you die
  And your death'll come soon
  I will follow your casket
  In the pale afternoon
  And I'll watch while you're lowered
  Down to your deathbed
  And I'll stand o'er your grave
  'Til I'm sure that you're dead

  Bob Dylan

  Hatred, Watches, Afternoon

  Song: Masters of War

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• I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Squad

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

  Lil' Kim

  Death, Party

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