#corpse

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

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#corpselike #malaise #music

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #death

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... ↗

— Emily Brontë

#cemetery #corpse #death #heathcliff #change