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
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 Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole 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
A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me. — Bryan Adams 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
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 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
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back… — Ekaterina Sedia 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
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
