Corpses Quote by Demetri Martin

“When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long…

— Molly Harper

It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken for the…

— Harry Houdini

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“People have rituals for communing with the dead, rituals that depend more on the idiosyncrasies of the individual than on the influence of culture.…

— Barry Eisler

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

— Curtis Armstrong

“The dead are silent, and objects, when they hold impressions, are quiet until you reach through them. But the touch of living is loud.…

— Victoria Schwab

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann

“Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the…

— Jim Butcher

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

— James Ellroy

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather…

— Sophie Dahl

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Why do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death’s alarms? ’Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to His arms.…

— Robert J. Morgan