Corpses Quotes - Page 2

• He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Attitude, Gun, Blood

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Ice, Law

  Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

  Margaret Atwood

  Anchors, Church, Alive

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Regret, Lying, Dark

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Hands, People

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.19, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

  Eric Reeves

  Wells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.

  Park Dietz

  Suffering, Tape, Victim

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

  George S. Patton

  Loss, Fighting, Winning

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• PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  Chaz Bufe

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press

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• The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous - sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Animal, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

  Russell D. Moore

  Raises

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• Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Psychology, World, Anatomy

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• We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.

  John Dufresne

  Sleep, Lovers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.

  Paul Dano

  Beautiful, Reading, Two

  Source: uproxx.com

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• The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

  Jeff Bezos

  Technology, Done, World

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• When there's someone who's dead and then someone does something that that person would not have liked, they say that that person is spinning in their grave. But I don't understand why they say that. Why is spinning the way that a corpse shows disapproval?

  Demetri Martin

  Doe, Way, Spinning

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• I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Events, Taste

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.321, Vintage

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• Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

  Meher Baba

  Eye, Years, Clothes

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• Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.

  Laura Mullen

  Moving, Thinking, Hands Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

  Al Barr

  Children, America, Cash

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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