Carcass Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
— Zhuangzi
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting…
— Herman Melville
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Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me in a boudoir, in…
— Maila Nurmi
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In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted whole... at its best it…
— William Allen White
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more…
— Jan Neruda
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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â…
— Aleister Crowley
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round…
— Nina Cassian
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Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time…
— Rumi
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I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...
— Alison Moyet
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass…
— William Hazlitt
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as…
— Karl Marx
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass…
— Matt Taibbi
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My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On…
— Charles Baudelaire
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...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several…
— Philip K. Dick
Who Wrote These Carcass Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 38 Carcass Quotes, led by these top contributors: