“She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.” — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.” — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Copy Share Image
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna Loved her for the last time and left. . . That night in her husband's… — Kamala Das Copy Share Image
“...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“How came she by her death? How came she there? Was she slain by accident, or had she met with violence? were… — George Payne Rainsford James Copy Share Image
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“The corpse is too gentle, With a touch, so parental, I dare not refuse, With a lot to lose, I miss the… — Rahim Haider Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“*Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image