Corpses Quotes - Page 12

• One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Lying, Restoration

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

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• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

  David Bowie

  Challenges, Music And Life, Life Is

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• 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

  Hair, Way, Scene

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• Under each formula lies a corpse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lying, Formulas

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Faith, Morning, Philosophical

  "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.

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• He would make a lovely corpse.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 25 (1844)

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• A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Doors, Car, Skins

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• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.404, Courier Corporation

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• Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

  Thomas More

  Mean, Punishment, Thieves

  "Utopia". Book by Thomas More, 1516.

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is
  just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die.
  And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about
  justice.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Courage, Talking, Justice

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Dec 01, 2010

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• Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

  John Galsworthy

  Memories, Deeds

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2703, Delphi Classics

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• As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Church, Body, Spirit

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

  John Stott

  Christian, Character, Understanding

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Acts”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

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• God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sea, Alive, Breathe

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

  Theophile Gautier

  Desert, Body, Lice

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• Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.

  Isaac R. Trimble

  War, Civil War, Majors

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• I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

  Michael Stipe

  Feet, Would Be, Six

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• As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

  Janice Dickinson

  Want, Being The Best

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sarcastic, Coffins, Handsome

  The Good Natured Man Act I

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• Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Mother, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4628, e-artnow

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• 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

  Ideas, Fragility, Stories

  "Three Letters on History: Thophile de Viau" (written 1938 - 1939)

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• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Pain, Dying

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

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