"You are a person and then you cease……" — Mary Roach

You are a person and then you cease to be a person,… - Mary Roach

"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."

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71 Quotes by Mary Roach

Mary Roach has 71 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately,…
My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at…
Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales…
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been…
In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty…
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on…
To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and…

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More Cadaver Quotes

This quote is filed under Cadaver Quotes, one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The… — Andrea Dworkin
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel… — Fernando Pessoa
..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he… — Muriel Barbery
It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left… — Sylvia Plath
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same… — Mary Roach
There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver. — J. G. Ballard

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