Corpses Quotes

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

  Heraclitus

  Death, Fit, Burial

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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  L. Neil Smith

  States, Collectives, Incapable

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “Forge of the Elders”, p.194, Baen Books

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

  Brian Aldiss

  Life, Kids, Unhappy Childhood

  "Billion Year Spree : The History of Science Fiction". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1973.

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• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Wife, Our Love

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Technology, Dachau

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Children, Unhappy Childhood, Decay

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• The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Positivity, Negativity, Negative

  "Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• A dead martyr is just another corpse.

  Leo Gordon

  Hero, Idealism, Martyr

  "Fictional character: Major Craig". "Tobruk", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

  Abraham Verghese

  Looks, Wheels, Caught

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• There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Pieces, Stubborn, World

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• Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Soul, Littles

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.46, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• 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.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, 2008.

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• Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

  Science, Darkness, Observation

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• 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

  Thinking, Brain, Saws

  "Lemony Snicket on the mindless pleasure of Law & Order, and how to solve each case". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. September 29, 2015.

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• Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

  Herman Melville

  Pain, Men, People

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.208, Herman Melville

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• A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Fathers Day, Wedding, Baby

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

  Hugo Claus

  Light, Feet, Laughing

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• Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

  Gary Snyder

  Rocks, Bird, Speak

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• The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

  Vince Cable

  Kissing, Government, Giving

  "Labour's bank rescue plan has failed, opposition tells Darling" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2009.

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• I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Body, Wells, Bottom

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Walks

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.29, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

  Werner Herzog

  Fog, Clouds, Glasses

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• You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Soul, Littles

  "Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

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• Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

  Homer

  Dog, Parent, Wish

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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