Top 100 Corpse Quotes
#1. Which left me with the cheery knowledge that my father would wan tto spend time with me even if i were a cold, stiff corpse. not every daughter can say that, i bet!
Michele Jaffe
#2. Glory muttered, staring over Winter's shoulder at the corpse. Clouds
Tui T. Sutherland
#3. But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
Gayle Forman
#5. The M.E. dissected pieces of a corpse to tell a story, while Drayco tried to bring them back from the dead, jagged piece by jagged piece.
B.V. Lawson
#6. Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life grown so strange?
Lindsay Buroker
#7. They say you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. The same holds true for a dead body. Put lipstick on a corpse and you've played dress-up with a corpse.
Caitlin Doughty
#8. I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.
Charlaine Harris
#10. Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.
P.C. Cast
#11. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.
Lindsey Davis
#12. No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees
Rudyard Kipling
#14. There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.
Allen Ginsberg
#16. He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body. The order was as flexible as her corpse remained.
Thomm Quackenbush
#17. I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?
Mary Roach
#18. She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
John Green
#19. It was November, that quiet, gray time of the year when you feel like holding someone's hand. Gretel had her own hands clasped together, like a corpse.
Alice Hoffman
#20. Lovers are like Siamese twins, two bodies with a single soul; but if one dies before the other, the survivor has a corpse to lug around.
Julian Barnes
#21. Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.
Paul Dano
#22. On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
Taylor Swift
#23. I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that.
Emmett Spain
#24. I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.
Thomas McGuane
#26. Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.
Flann O'Brien
#29. He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.
Patrick Suskind
#31. One! said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
Alexandre Dumas
#32. What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
Malcolm Lowry
#33. He just seemed menacing. Like he could slit your throat, then sit down, prop his feet on your corpse, and eat a sandwich.
Dianne Duvall
#34. If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces ... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Asger Jorn
#35. The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.
Bill Maher
#36. Leave me now as one leaves a corpse ... with regret, and memories, but without a second look.
John Speed
#37. A dead martyr is just another corpse.
Leo Gordon
#38. Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.
Ed McBain
#39. Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed
Munia Khan
#40. Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.
Ilona Andrews
#41. ... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.
Caroline Kepnes
#42. Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
John Galsworthy
#43. On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
Edward Norton
#44. Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.
Gail Giles
#45. This is the corpse road, she said, aligning her body with the invisible path. As she did, she could feel something inside her begin to hum agreeably, a sensation very much like the satisfaction that came from aligning book spines on a shelf.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
E. Stanley Jones
#47. Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Margaret MacMillan
#48. Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Charles Spurgeon
#49. It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.
Mark Twain
#50. A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
Bernard Ramm
#51. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder
#52. The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.
L.M. Montgomery
#53. Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.
Thomas More
#54. She's a pile of nanites working together to duplicate the individual parts of a teenage girl on the cellular level, and they don't realize there's no actual girl left. They rebuilt a working model of a corpse.
Peter Clines
#55. Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.
Robert Jordan
#56. At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.
Edward St. Aubyn
#57. He withdrew then, leaving [him] standing in the bloody morning sunlight, leaving him all alone at the heart of his fortress, for the second time, with nothing but a corpse for company.
Scott Lynch
#58. You are a little soul carrying around a corpse
Epictetus
#59. Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed.
"No?"
"Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss?
Jennifer Rardin
#61. I brush my hair,
waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
and were screwed together. They will knit.
And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.
Anne Sexton
#62. There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#63. What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
Peter Capaldi
#64. Storms, woman," [Kaladin] said. "I don't know what to make of you."
"Preferably not a corpse."
"I'm surprised someone hasn't already done that.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. She began by taking R. Carter's resonating silver key, and unlocking the Rat-Thing door that led into the corpse garden where all hope was to be ended.
Kent David Kelly
#66. That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
Simone De Beauvoir
#67. Alexander was laid in state in the city he had founded. A previous imperial visit had not been a complete success; Augustus, passing his hands over the inspirational features of the conqueror's corpse, broke off his nose. Whether it was repaired or the emperor removed it as a relic is unrecorded.
Elizabeth Speller
#68. If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse - and this I truly don't recommend - you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound. "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.
Mary Roach
#69. Of course, when I was a girl, a housemaid's face would have betrayed no emotion if the corpse were being dismembered on the carpet and she had to step over bits of it to reach the table, but times are changing
Catriona McPherson
#70. The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young, and have a literate corpse.
Robert B. Parker
#71. Once you've gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it's a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it's not around. Or maybe it's just me.
David Burr Gerrard
#72. Time snapped and Hagerty found himself speeding toward the woman in the straitjacket. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he pulled her off the corpse and held her at arm's length. He caught a glimpse of Kalish's face and the shredded mess where his throat should have been.
Nancy A. Collins
#73. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. Wodehouse
#74. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.
Kurt Vonnegut
#75. I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter
#76. I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.
Doug Stanhope
#77. I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.
Richard Lamm
#78. If you'd died on me, I would've taken it out on your corpse."
Raven Heartstone Celenti to Paladin Carison Destine
Ruth Ford Elward
#79. He half believed [...] that love was capable of killing a person, and that even a worm, digesting the particularly bitter juices, could distinguish a dead corpse from love.
Jane Hamilton
#80. No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#81. It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.
Ford Madox Ford
#82. It's a really hard movie [Insane Farting Corpse] to do a Q&A for, as well. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."
Daniel Radcliffe
#83. A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot.
Marty Rubin
#84. An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.
Tess Gerritsen
#85. You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. If Grogssson's got the case, you might as well rifle the body, rob the place and draw a moustache on the corpse; he wouldn't mind.
G.S. Denning
#87. All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin's corpse hall. What
Bernard Cornwell
#88. Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.
Michael Grant
#89. They say man only needs six feet of Earth. But it is a corpse, and not man, which needs these six feet.
Anton Chekhov
#90. The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#91. Out of the mouth of the huge, shadowed poster, between the great violet lips, half-open in ecstasy, the dark shape of a man emerged and hung down like a worm from the mouth of a corpse.
Ian Fleming
#92. But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
Oliver Goldsmith
#94. Jeremy, there are many things I would do to help you, but digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the corpse of a dog you've killed is not one of them.
Mark Corrigan
#95. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.
Suzanne Collins
#96. The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.
Vince Cable
#97. God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin.
Jamey Hecht
#98. He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
Osamu Dazai
#99. You ever get into that shit again? Lotta trees behind Stonehaven. I'll string you up from one." "And let the crows peck at my corpse?" "Nah. Doesn't hurt if you're already dead.
Kelley Armstrong
#100. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.
Raymond Chandler
