#corpse

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

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. ↗

— Gig Young

#epics #people #snoring #specialties #spectacular

Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life grown so strange? ↗

— Lindsay Buroker

#killer #life

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

— Sophocles

#breathing #call #corpse #happiness #him

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#feel #felt #lived #living #lost

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

#corpses #days #death #derision #division

Many corpses will be floating in the sea. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#floating #many #sea #will

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#childhood #corpses #dies

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#corpse #ever #good #good wishes #jealousy

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corpse #corruption #mask #seduction #squalor