Corpses Quotes - Page 17

• 'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Insane, Kind, Wells

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

  Paula Fox

  War, Reality, Thinking

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Memories, Impact, Never Change

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• Here richly, with ridiculous display,
  The Politician's corpse was laid away.
  While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
  I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Ridiculous, Politician, Acquaintance

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Editors, Brain, Firsts

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ambition, Voice, Feet

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.235, 谷月社

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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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• The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

  Aristotle

  Men, Differences, Ignorant

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

  Charles Williams

  Bells, Rooms, Telephones

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dollars, Thousand, Extras

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve   qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

  Boris Vian

  Perfect, Plus

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• A person without regrets is called a corpse.

  Lois Greiman

  Regret, Persons

  Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.237, Dell

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