The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider… — Menander Copy Share Image
A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do,… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
