#cask

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

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cask #cellar #child #course #first

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cask #foundation #good #ground #inner

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