Corpse Quotes
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Grace Reed: the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every wake.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
Every face he saw was the face of a corpse-to-be. His world was peopled with living ghosts
— Rick Yancey
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
Nobody spoiled for a fight like a group of Downside hookers around the corpse of one of their own.
— Stacia Kane
One! said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
— Alexandre Dumas
A person without regrets is called a corpse.
— Lois Greiman
I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor.
— Ilona Andrews
I'm dancing in my own corpse. Over dramatic and ripe with error.
— Philip LoPresti
The world was FUBAR now. And if you're not okay with that, you're just a corpse waiting to happen.
— Rick Yancey
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?
— Manuel Azana
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
— Oliver Goldsmith
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If Grogssson's got the case, you might as well rifle the body, rob the place and draw a moustache on the corpse; he wouldn't mind.
— G.S. Denning
When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.
— Harold Norse
The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.
— Tim Kreider
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? — T. S. Eliot
I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse - or mine.
— Victoria Aveyard
Gentlemen, you are, as i am, in search of a woman who, must have passed this way, for i see a corpse.
— Alexandre Dumas
We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.
— Robyn Schneider
Leave me now as one leaves a corpse ... with regret, and memories, but without a second look.
— John Speed
The two officers seemed more puzzled by Emily's costume than by the presence of a corpse in the Mercedes. Perhaps corpses were more regular.
— Margaret Scherf
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
— Aristotle.
MEN Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for? WOMEN What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?
— Aristophanes
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
— Stephen King
There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.
— Evan Esar
My corpse will smell wonderful.
— Victoria Aveyard
I'd rather be a slave than a corpse.
— Terry Pratchett
Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.
— Ilona Andrews
Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life grown so strange?
— Lindsay Buroker
But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart failure, it explains nothing! I have yet to meet a corpse whose heart it still beats.
— Agatha Christie
The only question now," he said, "is which corpse gets the most flowers.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.
— Melissa Marr
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine
I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.
— Daniel Handler
The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see.
— Christian Cameron
My corpse doesn't need a diamond throne.
— Kenya Wright
One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?
— Jeaniene Frost
Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.
— P.C. Cast
I felt memories rising to the surface like a corpse coming up from dark water.
— John Morgan Wilson
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
— Isaac R. Trimble
They say man only needs six feet of Earth. But it is a corpse, and not man, which needs these six feet.
— Anton Chekhov
For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me.
— John Christie
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Gold is the corpse of value...
— Neal Stephenson
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
— John Galsworthy
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
— David Lagercrantz
He looked like a vulture dissatisfied with its breakfast corpse.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Live fast, eat junk, leave a bloated corpse.
— Graham McNamee
But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.
— Suzanne Collins
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
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.
— Geoffrey Litwack
Nobody lends money to a corpse.
— Alice Yi-Li Yeh
Says, Shuts himself up like a corpse one day, eats like an
— Anthony Doerr
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
— Cesare Pavese
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime.
— Sumit Agarwal
every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware
— James Patterson
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse,
— Marcus Aurelius
I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over.
— William Goldman
You're always exhausted and you sleep like a corpse.
— Veronica Roth
If you'd died on me, I would've taken it out on your corpse." Raven Heartstone Celenti to Paladin Carison Destine — Ruth Ford Elward
We can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse
— Salman Rushdie
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!
— Gaston Leroux
Any new corpses today?""None yet."
"Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse. — Ed McBain
Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.
— David Giuntoli
The drunken man is a living corpse.
— Saint John Chrysostom
there was almost no smell from the corpse.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
