Body Quote by James Joyce

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

— Paul de Man

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do believe that the dead of the body means freedom for the spirit. Freed from the vanities of the flesh.

— Anonymous

Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

— W. H. Auden

“A body is a body." Viscarro shrugged his bony shoulders. "Dead, alive, alive, dead. I fail to see the importance of the distinction." Yeah?…

— Anonymous

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers…

— Wallace Stegner

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

— Henry Ward Beecher

Death is just a noun ...........

— Vikrant Parsai

“I like the term "decedent." It's as though the man weren't dead, but merely involved in some sort of protracted legal dispute. For evident…

— Mary Roach

Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is…

— Michael Cisco