Corpse Quotes

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. (Epictetus)
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. View quote
Winston Churchill
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. View quote
Aeschylus
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. View quote
Daniel Webster
I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse. View quote
Doug Stanhope
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. (Elie Wiesel)
If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse. View quote
Emil Cioran
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life-''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth. View quote
Aravind Adiga
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. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? View quote
Malcolm Lowry
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie. View quote
David Bowie
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. View quote
James Joyce
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. View quote
J. M. Barrie
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength. View quote
Asger Jorn
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. (Mario Puzo)
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. View quote
Charles Williams
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! View quote
Gaston Leroux
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. View quote
Osamu Dazai
The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven. View quote
Jenny Lawson
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