72 Quotes About Corpse

I’d rather be a slave than a corpse.

The corpse is too gentle,With a touch, so parental,I dare not refuse,With a lot to lose,I miss the ruse,The songs, the blues,

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth. They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.

Myth, on the contrary, is a language which does not want to die: it wrests from the meanings which give it its sustenance an insidious, degraded survival, it provokes in them an artificial reprieve in which it settles comfortably, it turns them into speaking corpses.

You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren’t too picky, when you come to it.

জীবিতদের কেউ মানুষ, আবার কেউ অমানুষ! আর মৃতরা শুধুই লাশ! সেখানে কোনো মনুষ্যত্ব নেই!

A corpse is seldom attractive.

I’m getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark.