Careless People Quote by Alan Weisman

“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I never wanted…

— Hwee Hwee Tan

“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

“The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like…

— Susan Griffin

“The earth’s lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before…

— Margo Lanagan

“When you get right down to it, there is no dignified way to go, be it decomposition, incineration, dissection, tissue digestion, or composting. They're…

— Mary Roach

“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a…

— Sara Sheridan

“The air is different in the homes of the dead, I've noticed. Partly it's the smell. Blood baking under those bright halogen lamps. The…

— Harry Bingham

“When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until…

— Mark Haddon

“Here in the forest lay sullen, soot-blackened stones that were the remains of ruined hearths; in abandoned cemeteries were dark headstones that had already…

— Vasily Grossman

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to…

— Robin Weigert