Charnel Quotes

#1. The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. And in a mad trance
Strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings
We decay
Like corpses in a charnel
Fear & Grief
Convulse is & consume us
Day by day
And cold hopes swarm
Like worms within
Our living clay

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

William Kunstler

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Le Corbusier

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

Andrew Wheeler

#10. I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

Micah Lexier

#11. I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

Richard Gere

#12. Terrorism," said the rental. "We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state." She

William Gibson

#13. The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Cyril Connolly

#14. I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

Oscar Nunez

#15. As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' ... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

Chuck Norris

#16. There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

Jim Palmer

#17. When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

Victoria Moran