#corpses

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

— Heraclitus

#fit #more #out #than #thrown

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ↗

— David Brin

#apologize #come #corpses #late #must

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#bombs #camps #chambers #corpses #countries

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

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