Embalmed Quotes

#1. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Samuel Smiles

#3. If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

Casey Stengel

#4. A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

William Godwin

#5. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing

#6. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton

#7. When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.

Adrianne Marcus

#8. Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Laurel Lea

#9. He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it looked blooming in the field. The color and fragrance - the true reality - or the flowers are gone.

Rex Alan Smith

#11. Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears

Blasio Kajuna

#12. At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

Edward St. Aubyn

#13. We walk on air, Watson.
There is only the moon, embalmed in phosphorus.
There is only a crow in a tree. Make notes.

Sylvia Plath

#14. Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Florence King

#15. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

#16. In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

Caitlin Doughty

#17. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

James Boswell

#18. Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

Dennis Lehane

#19. There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

John Brown

#20. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

Tahir Shah

#21. If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

M.F.K. Fisher

#22. The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

Martin Jacques

#23. Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed."
"Potted and splificated?"
"Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Libba Bray

#24. Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.

Maya Angelou

#25. Books are embalmed minds.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#26. I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

Oscar Wilde

#27. The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Zygmunt Bauman

#28. David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.

Gianluca Vialli

#29. Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Elbert Hubbard

#30. The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

Ted Cruz

#31. There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

Peter Lynch

#32. I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

Blake Michael

#33. Experience is everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Elizabeth I

#35. Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. "For me?"
"Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist "All your own.

Kresley Cole

#36. Shouting something to the bartender about the usual for the ladies and something pink for the pretty boy. On second thought, this was going to be a long night.

Christina Lauren

#37. Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

Bo Lozoff

#38. I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

Alessia Cara

#39. The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde

#40. My body is not a tomb for animals.

Leonardo Da Vinci