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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. -- Chuck Palahniuk
To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph. -- Roger Zelazny
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? -- Thomas Gray
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem! -- George Meredith
Death's the discarder. -- Nadine Gordimer
We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. -- Johnny Rich
Something had been buried that was not yet dead. -- Sebastian Faulks
Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the air, before dissolving into sunlight. -- Kimberly Cutter
I got his ashes, she said, and I took them out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn't even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with green and blue pebbles ... -- Charles Bukowski
Bloody flaming ashes -- Robert Jordan
The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences. -- Jonathan Stroud
The rain lashed down upon Brentford and Pope Alexander VI raised his massive arm and pointed towards Archroy and the young priest. 'You, I will make an example of,' he roared. 'You will know the exquisite agonies of lingering death.' Archroy thumbed his nose. 'Balls,' said he. -- Robert Rankin
What is that yellow stuff in the bottle, Soc?" "Urine, with a few herbs." "Urine!" I said, pulling my leg away from him in disgust. "Don't be silly," he said, grabbing my leg and pulling it back. "Urine is a respected elixir in the ancient healing traditions. -- Dan Millman
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg. -- Clarence Day
The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. -- Rumi
the large buckets about the -- Martha Finley
The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian] -- Karen Maitland
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. -- Robert Williams Buchanan
Ashes are excellent fertilizer -- Brandon Sanderson
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. -- J. D. Mcclatchy
Over my pile of ashes -- Stephenie Meyer
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! -- Eric Idle
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. -- John Milton
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs. -- Armando Iannucci
A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf. -- Karen Thompson Walker
I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes. -- James Randi
When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel? -- Karen Marie Moning
Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag, -- Kristen Ashley
A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand. -- Jane Hirshfield
Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. -- Alan Shepard
The curse is an incredible set of blue balls. -- Gore Verbinski
Never the grave gives back what it has won! -- Friedrich Schiller
Who gathers the withered rose? -- William Faulkner
Ashes or diamonds
foe or friend
we're all equal in the end -- Roger Waters
Its spinner was black and had a swirling white -- Adam Makos
What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
That need to be revived and breathed in me? -- William Shakespeare
The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens. -- Lemony Snicket
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. -- Ben Hogan
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs. -- John Donne
It all began with a bucket of eggs. -- H.l. Stephens
If throwing coins into a fountain made wishes, what did the tears of a broken-hearted girl make? The -- Alex Lux
Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave. -- Charles Robert Maturin
A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end. -- Agatha Christie
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it -- Erich Maria Remarque
One first celebrates a 'silver jubilee', then a 'golden jubilee', then a 'diamond jubilee', but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation). -- Dada Bhagwan
But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill. -- Francis Thompson
Jesus's bloody tears. -- Ian Tregillis
Choose Your Tears
If we cry over spilled milk,
what tears will be left over for spilled blood? -- Beryl Dov
If e'er I win a parting token,
'Tis something that has lost its power
A chain that has been used and broken,
A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
Something that makes my pleasure less,
Something that means
forgetfulness. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning. -- Yasunari Kawabata
Gaunt immortality in black and gold,
Wreathed consoler hideous to behold.
The beautiful lie of a mother's womb,
The pious trick - for it is the tomb! -- Thomas Ligotti
Now the baby's in the trash heap balling. -- Tupac Shakur
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service. -- Lynn Flewelling
the wildflowers said what burial. -- Gwen Calvo
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter. -- Anna Akhmatova
My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern. -- Henri Cole
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle. -- Jessica Mitford
Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease. -- Philip James Bailey
The jewels of sorrow last forever -- James Thurber
Holy water, a couple cloves of garlic, vials of salt, and iron fillings filled the basket, intended to be door prizes for anything that showed up in an attempt to suck my blood, carry me off to faerieland, or sell me stale cookies. -- Jim Butcher
Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe. -- Dennis Vickers
Hallorann's testicles turned into two small wrinkled sacs filled with shaved ice. -- Stephen King
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. -- Bob Uecker
I have made my bed
In charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda. -- Robert Jackson Bennett
I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag. -- W.b.yeats
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood. -- Lauren Destefano
Milk, blood, tears, urine, semen. -- Henri Cole
Over the bowls of memory where every hollow holds a hallow -- James Joyce
The Devil craps on the big pile -- Albert Einstein
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained. -- Sabine Baring-Gould
I don't give a fistful of ashes! -- Chretien De Troyes
I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants. -- Tommy Chong
The body left behind.
The soul lives forever. -- Toba Beta
For a long time I searched for the black stone that cleanses the soul of death. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Penis? Cock? Dick? Wood? Schlong? Womb broom? Clam hammer? Yogurt slinger? -- Jewel E. Ann
Its name - what passes not away; -- Lao-Tzu
Then I will speak upon the ashes. -- Sojourner Truth
Ash, ash - -
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
From the poem Lady Lazarus -- Sylvia Plath
birch twigs, and a willow binding. The ash is protective, the birch is purifying, and the willow is sacred to the Goddesss. Of -- Scott Cunningham
I hooked the condom out with the end of a spoon and dropped it into the bottom of a white bin-bag, where it lay, dried out and brown, as transparent as old human skin. -- Mo Hayder
An olive, with a pit ... -- Victor Feguer
of a musket ball embedded in his -- Diana Gabaldon
out of death, life, out of the coarse rank earth, a flower. -- Thomas Wolfe
A burnt broom that has had enough, and refuses to burn further ... -- Gregory Maguire
Today's ashes are tomorrow's soil. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I wondered what I thought I was burying. -- Sylvia Plath
Foul, misbegotten mound of walking donkey dung! -- Werner A. Lind
A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride. -- Munia Khan
Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ.
"probably not, My lord. -- D.b. Reynolds
The only relic from another life. -- V.e Schwab
The soul dies at the hand of the one who carries it. -- Kami Garcia
Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers. -- Carl Sandburg
All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched -- Angela Carter
A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Balls are to men what purses are to women. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days? -- Colson Whitehead
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. -- Toni Morrison
You must write for the waste basket. -- Johnny Mercer
the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump. -- Henning Mankell
