Corpses Quotes - Page 16

• "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Atheism, Said, Young

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• Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

  Anais Nin

  House, And Love, Turns

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• If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

  Mark Twain

  Death, Nice, Fetch

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27

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• The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Embalming

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• Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Dark, Night

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.189, Anchor

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• Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

  Alice Cary

  Thinking, Gold, Saint

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Simple, People

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• Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

  Jessica Mitford

  Beautiful, Memories, Order

  Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.43, Vintage

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• What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Hangover, Looks

  Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

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• The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Umpires, Enemy

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Comedy, Moments

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Children, Father

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Sleep, Night

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• Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

  Tillie Olsen

  Doe, Results, Occasional

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• The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Father, Frozen, Wrecks

  'The Wreck of the Hesperus' (1839)

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• All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

  Grant Morrison

  Dream, Children, Women

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• We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Life, Attitude, Law

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• If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Thinking, Expression

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• I want to be a pretty corpse.

  Eva Braun

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

  Busy Philipps

  Laughing, Cry, Drag

  Source: collider.com

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• I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Opening Up, Skulls

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

  Doug Stanhope

  Baby, Father, People

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• I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

  Doug Stanhope

  Waiting, Parent, Wallets

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