Body Quote by Michael Cisco

“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

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

— Mary Roach

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

— Anonymous

“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

“Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no…

— Mary Roach

I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away.…

— Charlaine Harris

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If…

— Mary Roach

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

— Saadi

Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how…

— Laurel Nakadate

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

— Anton Chekhov

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice