"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

“Oh, to be old again,” said the young corpse.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?

— Emo Philips

“(these are my highlighted parts of the book) Not human, thought Maura, as the hairs stood up on the back of her neck. My…

— Tess Gerritsen

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at…

— James A. Baldwin

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his…

— Aravind Adiga

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

— Isaac R. Trimble

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and…

— Bernard Ramm

When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person is spinning…

— Demetri Martin

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

— William Hazlitt

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I…

— Daniel Handler

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is…

— Jessica Mitford

“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too…

— Isaac Marion

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

— Vince Cable

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