“In here was a smell of rotting book-bindings, dirty vinyl cushions that had been half-cooked in the hot suns of summers past,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Standing before him, the blight of idyllic thought and aspiration--rotting souls reproducing like fleas.” — Glen Krisch Copy Share Image
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port?” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music.… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“God, I hate Sleeping Beauties.” Why that story, out of all the possible stories, should have the sort of staying power it… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
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
Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one… — Nina Cassian Copy Share Image
Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.” — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Okay, maybe I’d been a little ratty, but there’s something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong",… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What kind of people?" The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“The roof is rotting. This is something I should have known to fix years ago, should have known needed maintaining, but no… — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
I am a dumb piece of meat and I rot everyday my flesh gives a rotting smell and people say it's the… — Daul Kim Copy Share Image
