Corpses Quote by Tillie Olsen Download Open image “Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.” — Tillie Olsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corpses Doe Lighting Occasional Publishing Results Strikes
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Sometimes our light goes out,but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting… — Joshua Sylvester Copy Share Image
Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“Mazie sits with a sense of non-being over her – of it being someone other than she sitting there timeless, suspended in a dusky… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal,… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“She kept too much in herself. Her life was such that she had to keep too much in herself. My wisdom came too late. She is a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear. Let her be. So, all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does it? There is still enough left… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share
Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share
Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. — Gig Young Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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