Charles Quote by Joe Murray

“After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting tissue? And…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The doctors removed my wasteland exterior by debriding me, scraping away the charred flesh. they brought in tanks of liquid nitrogen containing skin recently…

— Andrew Davidson

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

— Ezra Pound

“One’s own dead are more than cadavers, they are place holders for the living. They are a focus, a receptacle, for emotions that no…

— Mary Roach

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I…

— Virginia Woolf

“A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.”

— Alan Bradley

“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

“Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now ’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death,…

— Herman Melville

“Of course, the cadavers, in life, donated themselves freely to this fate, and the language surrounding the bodies in front of us soon changed…

— Paul Kalanithi

“Humans are unique in this world in that, as opposed to all other animals, they have developed a consciousness so advanced that it has…

— Steve Toltz

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

— Dan Rice