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Tag Name "Corpse" (153)

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That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen King
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.
Steve Berry
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
Tennessee Williams
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Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
Tillie Olsen
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
Vance Havner
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I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.
W. C. Fields
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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
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A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.
William De Morgan
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
Robert Anton Wilson
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If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching.
Russell Brand
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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
S. S. Van Dine
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The drunken man is a living corpse.
Saint John Chrysostom
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When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I know people better than to believe that for even an instant. Altruism is dead. People use and they take until you’re nothing but a bleeding corpse on the ground at their feet. (Alix)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
Lynn Margulis
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
Cal Thomas
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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Marcus Aurelius
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To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.
Charles Spurgeon
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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
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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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