Casket Quotes

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly 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 casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. - C.S. Lewis

THIS woman followed these men and women from the time they enlisted or were drafted until the time some of them, unfortunately, came back in caskets. She missed nothing. - Patricia Murphy

There was very little left. It's bad enough losing your kids, but our kids were burned beyond recognition. There were no open caskets. There were no bodies to say goodbye to. - Bob Stauble

Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close the casket. What I want to know is why? How could anyone do that for $20? Just $20. - Van Horn

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. - Edward Jones

The family sat at the funeral home for three days expecting Mom to show up... When they threw dirt on the casket, they knew she was dead. - Dolores Johnson

Prior to 1850, caskets were like Dracula's; they were widest at the shoulder and narrowed down. When they dug a grave, they dug down to a point and then they dug the hole to match the shape of the coffin. This produced a shoulder of undisturbed soil, the coffin ledge, that the archeologist was probing. I tried it, and it takes quite some skill. - Rick Beggs

Potential steroid users are seduced by the fake picture of health and vitality and virility. The picture doesn't show the strain on the arteries, the wear and tear on the heart and the psyche. It doesn't show the caskets. - Jeff Rutstein

One of her sons is in a casket and the other is in the hospital. That's sad. - Kelly Logan