Corpses Quotes

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not. — Victoria Aveyard

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse. — Pol Pot

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. — John C. Wright

Wish all my corpses would do that. — Kelley Armstrong

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever. — M. Fethullah Gulen

You would have thought that I had left 11 corpses on the steps of a funeral home. — Alex Ferguson

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. — Giles Foden

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. — Robertson Davies

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses. — Henry Selick

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong? — Manuel Azana

Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble. — Margaret Atwood

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

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. — Zach Braff

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. — Charles Baudelaire

It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company. — Billie-Jo Williams

Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses. — Elie Wiesel

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses. — Sylvia Plath

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. — R. K. Milholland

War will make corpses of us all. — Faramir

Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. — Jon Krakauer

Self-righteous wrath had planted more corpses in the ground than an empire could lay claim to, — Steven Erikson

Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses? — William Lindsay Gresham

I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face. — Franz Kafka

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. — Elbert Hubbard

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. — Theophile Gautier

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses — Joseph Goebbels

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

If corpses were still able to buy things, the inside of coffins would have been turned into advertising space a long time ago. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A court of rotting corpses to worship at the feet of the goddess of death. — Nalini Singh

He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. — Holly Black

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

We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering. — Robert B. Parker

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. — Freeman Dyson

I don't want the corpses of flowers about me. — D.H. Lawrence

Many corpses will be floating in the sea. — Thaksin Shinawatra

Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators. — Seanan McGuire

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. — Edvard Munch

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. — Simone Weil

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

Damn it, we need some of those men left alive to - " "All you're getting are corpses. When you send the cleanup crew, send a fucking bus. — Dianne Duvall

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. — Anais Nin

That came out of one of the men's pockets, didn't it?" "Bald and Stubby, yeah." "Nice of you to create such respectful names for the corpses, — Lindsay Buroker

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming. — William Hazlitt

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. — George Orwell

An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead... — William Styron

The double row of berths yawned black, like graves tenanted by uneasy corpses. — Joseph Conrad

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse? — Emo Philips

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin. — John Piper

I saw a mother who lose his country, city, home and children, but she had hijab between corpses. — Ali Rezavand Zayeri

Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck. — Michael McDowell

I want to be a pretty corpse. — Eva Braun

She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it. — Laini Taylor

The whole world is a charnel house. We always make love on corpses. — Andrew Wheeler

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. — Victor Hugo

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. — Alan Bradley

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

But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!"
"So can we," the corpses laughed. — Milan Kundera

Wake up and smell the corpses. — Judith Fitzgerald

A corpse is what's left after waking too often. — Cesare Pavese

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. — Jeff Lindsay

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse. — Evan Esar

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds. — Robin Hobb

Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses. — Anthony Ryan

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. — George Bernard Shaw

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion? asked Nothing. — Joe Abercrombie

Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse. — Ed McBain

The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death — Dean Cavanagh

The drunken man is a living corpse. — Saint John Chrysostom

Funny how they're corpses if you didn't know them, but bodies if you did. — Jason Heller

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after. — William Napier

I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy. — Rebecca West

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

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside. — Akshay Vasu

reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs — Rick Yancey

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. — Amadeo Bordiga

An autumn leaf is the corpse of that leaf and what a crazy thing that we love these corpses! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. — Louis Lecoin

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better. — Zona Gale

I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse. — W.C. Fields

Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead. — Gail Giles

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him. — Francois Mauriac

After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground. — Elie Wiesel

Men without joy seem like corpses. — Kathe Kollwitz

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. — George Konrad

We're the dead. There's no one else now. There's the past-dead and the future-dead. Corpses and corpses-to-be. — Rick Yancey

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. — Gig Young

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. — Heraclitus

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. — Sue Townsend

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? — David Brin

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. — L. Neil Smith

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats. — Scott Lynch

Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses. — Neil Gaiman

But so many people... have only got their minds tacked on to their physical corpses. — D.H. Lawrence