Corpse Quotes

219 quotes by 185 authors

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 ever have. — David Bowie
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that… — 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 whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — 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 another, the child too often… — 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 'religion' creates a repulsion, where… — Rajneesh
I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus.… — Doug Stanhope
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a… — Aldous Huxley
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. — Tillie Olsen
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. — Henry James

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