23 Corpse Quotes for You to Enjoy

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Aleister Crowley

Faith Morning Doubt Slept Danced Drank Corpse All Night Arms Awakening Found Her Night

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Father Every Baby Corpse Wedding Always Wanted Bride Funeral

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill

Art Innovation Sheep Corpse Without Shepherd Tradition Flock

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus

You Soul Corpse Carrying Around Little

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. Raoul Vaneigem

Positive Life Love Class Struggle People Everyday Life Understanding Revolution Mouth Everyday Corpse Class Struggle About Constraints Talk Without Referring Refusal Subversive Explicitly Who

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. Duane Michals

Life Work Death Myself Nature Me My Life Nothing Sleeping State Corpse Photograph Dream Tells Photographers Find Temporal About Someone Facts Itself Very Want Interested Transient Event Thing Things

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. Hugo Claus

You Light Old Other Guests Earth Top Corpse Laugh See Trodden Feet Know Go Verses Stacked Where Stagger Your Hard Whom Now Graves Her

The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though, so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven. Jenny Lawson

Home Cats Hide Technically Will Husband First Corpse Though See Drink He Check Oven Checking Come First Thing Because Dies Refrigerator The First Thing Convinced Should Cook Now Thing Start Need

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. John Derek

Good Looking Young Live Corpse Good-Looking Leave Die Fast

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. Jules Verne

Day Will Moon Long Become Lost Cold Earth Corpse One Day Vital My Friend Since Like Well Friend Heat Which

I don't remember how I picked up 'Different Seasons,' but it was a book I read on a grave shift. I was absolutely floored by it; 'The Body,' a story about kids who go searching for a corpse in the woods, impacted me especially. Khaled Hosseini

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

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer. Matthew Gray Gubler

Alone Me Crazy You Mother Father Everything Corpse Cite See Impact Seeing More Come Know Sounds Bambi Up Than Walt Dies Walt Disney Much Really Disney Teaching Serious Deer

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! Poppy Z. Brite

Funny Experience Chapter Thought First Corpse Laughed Netherlands Never Had Read Audience Were America Places Exquisite

She made a ravishing corpse. Ronald Firbank

Made Corpse She

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. Shane Smith

Beautiful You Live Corpse Leave Behind Want Fast

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles

Happiness Man Lost Corpse Alive He Call Him Breathing

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. Tom Hardy

You Fear Will Corpse Ourselves See Buddhist Drowning Because Very Close Survive Hang Hold To Survive Rescue Floating

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die. Taylor Swift

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