"If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us……" — Asger Jorn

More Corpse Quotes

This quote is filed under Corpse Quotes, one of 219 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
• I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer.… — Helena Bonham Carter
• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. — Winston Churchill
• Under each formula lies a corpse. — Emile M. Cioran
• The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. — Aeschylus
• Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. — Oliver Goldsmith
• Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word… — Rajneesh

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