#corpse

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#incarnation #mind-over-body #soul #meditation

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

#buddhist #close #corpse #drowning #fear

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#corpses #critical #desert #lice #like

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

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

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

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

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse. ↗

— David S.E. Zapanta

#corpse #death #rebirth #undead #zombies

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ↗

— James Joyce

#cheese #corpse #gone #meat #milk