Charnel House Quotes

#1. Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Le Corbusier

#2. His toes groped out awkwardly as if they were odds and ends hastily collected from some discount charnel house. As a child, they'd curled down in sleek harmony. Where had his good toes run off to?

Scott M. Morris

#3. Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.

Catharine Arnold

#4. We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

William Kunstler

#5. Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Washington Irving

#6. The whole world is a charnel house. We always make love on corpses.

Andrew Wheeler

#7. Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.

Rod Stryker

#8. Darkness was anathema to shadows.

Steven Erikson

#9. Men's activities are occupied into ways
in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

#10. When someone anonymous tells me I'm fat, that's not a person to me. If they're not going to acknowledge me as a person, I'm certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.

Lena Dunham

#11. Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.

Aleister Crowley

#13. We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training ... and training ... and training.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#15. In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right.

Kenneth L. Fisher

#16. My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl.

Leigh Bardugo

#17. But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

Susanna Clarke

#18. The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world - oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

Peter S. Beagle

#19. Life was like that. Everyone loved the wrong person who loved someone else or didn't love at all.

K.M. Peyton