Painting Quote by Oscar Wilde

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.”

— Charles Dickens

“The gravedigger knew a fine trick. When the worms looked unhappy he would leave his place in the mausoleum and go up into the…

— L. Joseph Shosty

“You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realising that it is simply a pretty cover for…

— Neil Gaiman

“I want to proceed as Raphael did and never paint another image of torture.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but…

— Virginia Woolf

“(...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.”

— Charlaine Harris

“I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins -- The other…

— Robert W. Service

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells…

— Terry Pratchett