The whole world is a charnel house. We always make love on…

The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city.…

— Suketu Mehta

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

— William Kunstler

“His toes groped out awkwardly as if they were odds and ends hastily collected from some discount charnel house. As a child, they'd curled…

— Scott M. Morris

“Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk…

— Catharine Arnold

“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg…

— P.D. James

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

— Le Corbusier

“When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann—"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in…

— Upton Sinclair

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon…

— Horace Walpole

“The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death”

— Dean Cavanagh

If you look at the history of technology gadget makers, hardware makers, it's littered with the corpses of Palm and RIM and companies like…

— Whitney Tilson

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

— Paul Dano

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

— Gig Young