Corpse Quote by Carrie Lorig

“There are all these people bragging about how they’re survivors, as though that’s something very special. But the only kind of person who can’t…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who at least…

— Alan Bradley

“...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of…

— Courtney M. Privett

“If we give ourselves permission to say this death justifies that one, then we truly are lost.”

— karen miller

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because…

— Gayle Forman

“The dead aren't the only ones who vanished: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you.”

— Sarah Dessen

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”

— John Green

“The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo—the dissolving trace of something…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or…

— Ken Liu