Without desire, one is a walking cadaver.

Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as…

— Mary Roach

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.”

— Gustave Flaubert

One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The…

— Mary Roach

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's…

— Mary Roach

“If you don’t have a pair of cadaver shoes, you’re not doing enough research.”

— Mary Roach

“Humanitarian Benefits of Cadaver Research on Injury Prevention,” Albert King calculated that vehicle safety improvements that have come about as a result of cadaver…

— Mary Roach

“Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.”

— David S.E. Zapanta

“The early fly gets the cadaver”

— Tim Downs

“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned…

— Jon Ronson

“How is it that men create such lovely silhouettes, such shadows of the corporeal, capturing things in their most wraith-like moment and yet they…

— Anonymous

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated…

— Sylvia Plath

“I agree with Dr. Makris. Does that mean I would let someone blow up my dead foot to help save the feet of NATO…

— Mary Roach

“For me, hands are hard." She looks up from what she's doing. "Because you're holding this disconnected hand, and it's holding you back." Cadavers…

— Mary Roach