“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or… — Adrianne Marcus Copy Share Image
“Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold… — Rex Alan Smith Copy Share Image
“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects… — Simon Brett Copy Share Image
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
