Corpse Quotes
219 quotes by 185 authors
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He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping…
— N.K. Jemisin
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When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his…
— Cassandra Clare
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
— Isaac Marion
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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
— James Joyce
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The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some…
— Charlaine Harris
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Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.
— Rachel Vincent
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
— Elie Wiesel
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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the…
— Edvard Munch
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.
— Steve Berry
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Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse…
— Dan Wells
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..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for…
— Andrea Gibson
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
— Elie Wiesel
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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets,…
— Carol J. Adams
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Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
— James Dean
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It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad…
— Mira Grant
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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
— James Joyce
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Corpse Quotes
185 authors contributed a total of 219 Corpse Quotes, led by these top contributors: