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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. -- Heraclitus
Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one - just one - had made its way down towards the Mid-Atlantic.The rumored Dead Walker lived. -- Laurel Jay
Your words smell of corpses. -- Georg Buchner
Many corpses will be floating in the sea. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. -- Brian Aldiss
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. -- L. Neil Smith
My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. -- Gig Young
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. -- Theophile Gautier
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? -- David Brin
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. -- Giles Foden
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. -- Sue Townsend
If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses. -- Henry Selick
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. -- John C. Wright
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. -- Simone Weil
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning. -- Annie Besant
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
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive. -- Julie Ann Dawson
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
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
The mortician interviewing the corpses -- Eugene McCarthy
Men without joy seem like corpses. -- Kathe Kollwitz
You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. -- Charles Baudelaire
War will make corpses of us all. -- Faramir
Wish all my corpses would do that. -- Kelley Armstrong
Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses. -- Mason Cooley
A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. -- George Bernard Shaw
We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers. -- John Dufresne
I came to see a king, not a row of corpses. -- Augustus
One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. -- Louis Lecoin
History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin. -- John Piper
I can't stop bleeding and I can't stop having sex with corpses. -- Tre Cool
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. -- R. K. Milholland
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses. -- Frances Hardinge
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. -- Freeman Dyson
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. -- George Orwell
He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. -- Holly Black
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. -- Anais Nin
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. -- Gary Snyder
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. -- Jeff Lindsay
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. -- Siegfried Sassoon
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. -- George Bernard Shaw
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. -- Edvard Munch
Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate. -- Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses -- Joseph Goebbels
I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. -- Zach Braff
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. -- Clive James
To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. -- Amadeo Bordiga
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. -- Tom Waits
I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. -- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. -- John C. Wright
I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. -- Robertson Davies
I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here. -- Doug Stanhope
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him. -- Francois Mauriac
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects. -- David Pogue
And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood... -- Vladimir Bukovsky
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. -- Emmanuelle de Maupassant
The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them. -- George R. R. Martin
You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your arms scared to death?-Enyo -- Carolina Cody Aldaz
For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing. -- J. M. Coetzee
Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. -- Margaret Atwood
The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses. -- Scott Lynch
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. -- Edward Dahlberg
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
Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look. -- Peter Weiss
A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.' -- Russell Baker
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. -- George Orwell
There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals. -- Gary L. Francione
So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist) -- Hiromu Arakawa
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. -- Yasunari Kawabata
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned. -- Arthur Koestler
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live -- Saul Williams
I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits? -- George Bernard Shaw
The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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