love is loveliest when embalmed in tears

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

— Walter Scott

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

— Plato

Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

— Mervyn Peake

Long distance love can be the loveliest and sweetest ever.

— Jas&rob

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was…

— Adrianne Marcus

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

“The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it…

— Jess Walter

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the…

— Rex Alan Smith

“Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.”

— Dennis Lehane

“Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira”

— Anne Fadiman

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”

— Tahir Shah

“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the…

— Alan Wilson Watts