Corpses Quotes - Page 13

• What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Soul, Littles

  Malcolm Lowry (2000). “Under the Volcano”, p.283, Penguin UK

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• Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Men, Eagles

  Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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• When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

  Zona Gale

  Looks, Breaths

  Zona Gale (1909). “Friendship Village Love Stories”

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• A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Nations

  Speech to the members of the Committee of Public Safety, quoting Mirabeau, October 17, 1793. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 236, 1973.

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• There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

  Tim Lebbon

  Fun, Past, Air

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• The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Mean, Land

  Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr

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• 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 a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Sweet, Princess, Glasses

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, War

  "Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll" by Robert Green Ingersoll, C. P. Farrell, (p. 341), 1914.

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• Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Orthodoxy, Knows

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• Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

  Epictetus

  Life, Philosophical, Soul

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

  James Joyce

  Cheesy, Meat, Gone

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.321, e-artnow

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• Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Afternoon, Chance, Showers

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 17, 2004.

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• When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he couldn’t be sad — or even grieved? But then again, perhaps everyone should have someone to grieve for them, and there was no one else to grieve for Valentine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Grieving, Should Have

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• I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

  Isaac Marion

  Cities, Want, Builder

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Thinking

  James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Misunderstood, Might

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• Wish all my corpses would do that.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Wish

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Broken”, p.94, Seal Books

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• Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

  C. S. Forester

  Years, Twenties, Would Be

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• I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

  Charlaine Harris

  Police, Odd Things, Done

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.96, Penguin

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• Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.

  Rachel Vincent

  Sorry, Games, Kind

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers Collection: My Soul to Lose / Reaper / My Soul to Take / My Soul to Save / My Soul to Keep / My Soul to Steal / If I Die / Never to Sleep / Before I Wake / With All My Soul (Soul Screamers)”, p.87, HarperCollins UK

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• Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Littles, Violin, Next

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, War, Home

  "Fictional character: Faramir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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