Corpses Quote by Allen Tate

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And…

— Tom Perrotta

What little light was left inside me flickered out.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in…

— Anna Akhmatova

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and…

— Jennifer Estep

Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all…

— John of the Cross

I ran through a field of blades and broken glass. I watched the sun explode and the sky turn to a black and red…

— Naquitta Faith

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame…

— Charles Baudelaire

I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark,…

— Amanda Shires

“A real panic took hold of me. I didn't know where I was going. I ran along the docks, turned into the deserted streets…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where…

— Anonymous

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas…

— Vincent Starrett