Corpses Quotes

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.

The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

Wish all my corpses would do that.

I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.