Corpses Quotes - Page 6

• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

  Nina Cassian

  Broken Heart, Eye, Dark

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• In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  America, Netherlands, Firsts

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• I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?

  Emo Philips

  Surfing, Body

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• 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

  Thinking, Insane, Courses

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

  Steven J Lawson

  Home, Heart, Men

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

  John le Carre

  Party, Desert, Disillusionment

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• War will make corpses of us all.

  Faramir

  War, Lord, Rings

  "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
  To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Betrayal, Halls, Music Hall

  'Blighters' (1917)

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• The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

  Freeman Dyson

  Theory, Unified

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• 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 his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

  Horace Walpole

  Religion, Mistress, Age

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Slides

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time I get happy
  the Nana-hex comes through.
  Birds turn into plumber's tools,
  a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
  a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
  a boat turns into a corpse.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Depression, Dirty

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• Last night I fled until I came
  To streets where leaking casements dripped
  Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
  A nervous window bled.

  Allen Tate

  Night, Flames, Lasts

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.207, Macmillan

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• There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Way, Facts

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• Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flower, People, Might

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• Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Self, Imagination

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

  Roy Bean

  Funny, Humor, Weapons

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• I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.

  W. C. Fields

  Wells

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• I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

  David Giuntoli

  Gun, Thinking, May

  Source: collider.com

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• With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

  John August

  Musical, Saws, Process

  Source: collider.com

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• The drunken man is a living corpse.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1856). “Homilies: On the Statutes, or, To the people of Antioch. 1856”, p.11

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