Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image