#corpse

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#feet #hysterical #i #really #six

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. ↗

— Eric Holder

#appear #bin #corpse #courtroom #deal

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

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

She made a ravishing corpse. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#made #she

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

Your words smell of corpses. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#smell #words #your

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

#arms #awakening #corpse #danced #doubt

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ↗

— Heraclitus

#fit #more #out #than #thrown

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #beauty #bizarre #corpse #dating

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#corpse #robot #simulacra #woman #life