#cask

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

#doing #fighting #get #go #i

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

— Eric Bogosian

#dirt #forgotten #hitting #soon

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

#called #cask #close #compact #contained

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. ↗

— Hank Snow

#died #england #her #i #into

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#casket #death #funeral #heart #loss

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#poe #short-stories #the-cask-of-amontillado #equality

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

#casket #die #game #going #got

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late. ↗

— Hesiod

#bottom #cask #comes #end #fill

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#beautiful #buried #casket #corpse #cried

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

#casket #day #dead #gospel #i