"Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just……" — Franz Kafka
"Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night."
More Corpse Quotes
- 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… — David Bowie
- I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Rajneesh