35 Quotes About Corpses
- Author Samuel Beckett
-
Quote
HAMM: You stink already. The whole place stinks of corpses.CLOV: The whole universe.HAMM: [Angrily.] To hell with the universe! [Pause.] Think of something.CLOV: What?HAMM: An idea, have an idea. [Angrily.] A bright idea!
- Tags
- Share
- Author J.D. Robb
-
Quote
Summerset wasn't even where he's supposed to be so I could insult him and start the ditching.""I was home even earlier, and told him to go out with some of his friends.""Corpses don't have friends, they have other corpses.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Arturo Arias
-
Quote
Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Emmanuelle de Maupassant
-
Quote
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Isaac Marion
-
Quote
You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Antony Beevor
-
Quote
The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized corpses.
- Tags
- Share
- Author R.F. Kuang
-
Quote
Darling, people pay you less attention when you don't leave a trail of bodies in your wake.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Caitlin Doughty
-
Quote
In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Richard Matheson
-
Quote
Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!
- Tags
- Share