--- title: "2 Corpse Quotes By Jean Lorrain" description: "2 Corpse quotes by Jean Lorrain. Plus more from Jean Lorrain and more Corpse sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/jean-lorrain-16607_albrecht-durer_the-other-evening-in-that-cafe-cabaret-i_1791503.jpg" --- > [“The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who had taken me there to see that supposedly-fashionable singer... how could they fail to see that she was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-other-evening-in-that-cafe-cabaret-in-the-rue-de-la-fontaine/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/jean-lorrain-16607_albrecht-durer_the-other-evening-in-that-cafe-cabaret-i_1791503.jpg) > [“Masks! I see them everywhere. That dreadful vision of the other night - the deserted town with its masked corpses in every doorway; that nightmare product of morphine and ether - has taken up residence within me. I see masks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/masks-i-see-them-everywhere-that-dreadful-vision-of-the-other-night/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/jean-lorrain-16607_corpse_masks-i-see-them-everywhere-that-dreadfu_2514142.jpg) ## More by Jean Lorrain > [“But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/but-that-woman-is-an-encyclopedia-of-all-vices-ancient-and-modern-and/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“...the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-presence-of-others-has-become-even-more-intolerable-to-me-their/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-beauty-of-the-twentieth-century-is-the-charm-of-the-hospital-the/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/his-fame-as-an-artist-requires-very-tender-care-look-what-a-mask-of/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/a-strange-girl-all-phosphorous-and-cantharides-burning-with-every/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“There were charming ones as well as terrible ones, that I must admit. The painter was particularly entranced by Japanese masks: warriors', actors' and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/there-were-charming-ones-as-well-as-terrible-ones-that-i-must-admit/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted. I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/at-this-point-the-sequence-of-my-memories-is-disrupted-i-sank-into-a/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-ring-which-you-are-holding-my-friend-is-identical-to-that-one-i/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-fancies-that-take-their-monstrous-birth-from-the-spinelessness/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with a wicked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-marquis-de-v-whose-falsetto-voice-and-little-watery-eyes-i-have/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/her-vice-takes-hold-of-her-again-but-she-still-refrains-until-some/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [The charm of horror only tempts the strong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/the-charm-of-horror-only-tempts-the-strong/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“March 1898 What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low quarter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/march-1898-what-a-strange-dream-i-had-last-night-i-wandered-in-the/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“This Sarah Perez had the most beautiful eyes in the world, those green eyes spangled with gold that you love so much: the eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/this-sarah-perez-had-the-most-beautiful-eyes-in-the-world-those-green/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) > [“It is a sort of quasi-monastic diabolical vision. In a landscape populated with larvae - flowing and undulating larvae called forth like a cascade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-lorrain/it-is-a-sort-of-quasi-monastic-diabolical-vision-in-a-landscape/) [Jean Lorrain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-lorrain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corpse/jean-lorrain/#itemlist", "name": "2 Corpse Quotes By Jean Lorrain", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who had taken me there to see that supposedly-fashionable singer... how could they fail to see that she was nothing but a corpse? 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I have tried to persuade myself that I am dreaming, and that I am the victim of a hallucination, but all the powdered and painted faces of women, all the rouged lips and kohl-blackened eyelids... all of that has created around me an atmosphere of trance and mortal agony. Cosmetics: there is the root cause of my illness! But I am happy, now, when there are only masks! 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