#corpse

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

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#beautiful #buried #casket #corpse #cried

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#degenerate #die #gamble #gambled #gambler

Under each formula lies a corpse. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#each #formula #lies #under

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

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#death #objectivity #reality #death

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

— Heraclitus

#fit #more #out #than #thrown

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like