Corpses Quotes - Page 13

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

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Giving, Office

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

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• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  Ed Westwick

  Tattoo, Looking Good

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

  Walter Mosley

  Jobs, Looks, World

  FaceBook post by Walter Mosley from Oct 18, 2012

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• But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dream, Stars, Angel

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Stars, Science, Men

  "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.

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• Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

  Rajneesh

  Long, People, Religion

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• Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  George Wald

  Death, Science, Long

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

  Brent Weeks

  Believe, Moving, Air

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• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Comedy, Moments

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Afternoon, Chance, Showers

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 17, 2004.

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• Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Moving, Dancing, Missing

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Bitten To Death: Book four in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Funeral, Albums

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• I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

  James Joyce

  Cheesy, Meat, Gone

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.321, e-artnow

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

  Epictetus

  Life, Philosophical, Soul

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Yesterday, Today, Remember

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• 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

  War, Hero, Men

  1978 Fools Die, ch.2.

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• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

  Dan Savage

  Running, Depressing, Dad

  "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.

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• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Care, Causes

  "Taylor Swift talks acting, college and a dream collaboration with 'amazing' T.I." by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. Vobember 18, 2008.

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