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Quotes About Casket

Courtenay matter. There must be letters. Many of them appear, as you know, to concern the problems of navigation in which he was interested, but it is not difficult to read behind the lines. He died in Padua, and from what I can learn, all his papers were sealed in a casket and locked up by the Bailiff for safety. Rumour has it that Peter Vannes the English Ambassador has been told to
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
~ Dave Grohl
What do you do for a living in Maine, Miss Kent?" "I'm a casket maker.
~ Janet Chapman
Abram's been working for me," she said, pulling free. She touched Sam's sleeve. "He's been building his own casket.
~ Janet Chapman
Far better die, she said. She took in her hand a casket which held herbs for killing, but as she sat there with it, she thought of life and the delightful things that are in the world; and the sun seemed sweeter than ever before.
~ Edith Hamilton
Once Morris had finished his speech, the casket was transferred to a grave site in the Trinity churchyard, not far from where Hamilton had studied and lived, practiced law and served his country.
~ Ron Chernow
You always hear all these statements like "Freedom isn't free." You hear the President talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in a casket. When you feel their bodyweight. When you feel them. That's when you know. That's when you understand.
~ Jim Sheeler
Marriage is very nice but there's nothing so wonderful about it. One little golden casket's very like another.
~ JOHN BRAINE
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
~ Chris Young
If a man overdoses on Viagra, how do they get the casket lid shut?
~ Barry Dougherty
Ölümün için her ÅŸey çoktan haz?r: Seni öldürecek top güllesi çok uzun zaman önceden eritilip döküldü, tabutunun peÅŸinden aÄŸlayacak olan kad?nlar çoktan tutuldu.
~ Georges Perec
As a feature of the common man's funeral, the open casket is a relatively recent development: around 150 years. According to Mack, it serves several purposes, aside from providing what undertakers call "the memory picture." It reassures the family that, one, their loved one is unequivocally dead and not about to be buried alive, and, two, that the body in the casket is indeed their loved one, and not the stiff from the container beside his.
~ Mary Roach
The public filed past Elmer in his casket, looking every bit the soldier and nothing at all the decomposing body.
~ Mary Roach
She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds.
~ Gregory Maguire
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.
~ Walsham How
If he does not yet treasure, neither does he cast away, these Lesser Revelations, saving them one by mean, insufficient one,— some unbidden, some sought and earn'd, all gathering in a small pile inside the Casket of his Hopes, against an unknown Sum, intended to purchase his Salvation.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
~ Orson F. Whitney
I don't want to be buried in a Red Sox casket.
~ Theo Epstein
A closed casket was not part of the scenario, hit by Beantown Bug Killers or not. I wondered if my face was smooshed in. Eesh.
~ Kristan Higgins
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head as he held me upon that next best bed.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So sorry for your loss, Grandma said to Monica. My condolences. Yeah, whatever, Monica said. Grandma leaned into the casket for a close look. What are you gonna do, kiss him? Monica asked. I was trying to see where they cut him up when they took his brain out, Grandma said. Monica sucked in some fake smoke. You'd have to unzip his pants for that one.
~ Janet Evanovich
In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
~ Caitlin Doughty