Top 100 Quotes About Dead Bodies
#1. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
H. Rider Haggard
#2. Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
Ann Hood
#3. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.
Jack Herer
#6. I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
#7. The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
Jack Herer
#8. Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?
Jason Reynolds
#9. And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.
Carolyn Mackler
#10. We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.
Charles Caleb Colton
#11. Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.
David Brown
#12. He looked for a job, and the job that he found was that of an orderly in a hospital, on the night shift, where his work was emptying bed pans, wrapping up dead bodies, and doing all the other things which orderlies have to do.
You never met a more emancipated man.
William Stringfellow
#13. She had softened at his concern for her, but his tone was back to being scathing. She deduced that his concern was not for her safety. Dealing with the dead bodies of guests who broke their necks tumbling down his staircase in too long skirts would have disturbed his schedule.
Anya Wylde
#14. The only tangible evidence of the enemy's existence so far was dead bodies, but strangely, the dead were somehow less, did not match the fear and terror they inspired, much like one could not imagine flight from the evidence of a dead bird on the ground.
Tatjana Soli
#15. If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
David Adams Richards
#16. A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies.
Aristotle.
#17. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?
Vanessa Woods
#18. There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.
Ellery Adams
#19. We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
John Lancaster Spalding
#20. I'm just happy we're cool. I just want to go back to being the type of friends who have fun. Give each other rides. Bury dead bodies together. Be each other's alibis.
G.L. Tomas
#21. Dead bodies, I told myself, were nothing more than broken shells on a beach. It was just that in the morgue, that beach so often looked like a bad stretch of the Jersey shore.
Sibella Giorello
#22. This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.
Rupert Thomson
#23. It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion, crazed reporters. Really, they needed to consider expanding the curriculum.
Jenn McKinlay
#24. Listen, days decay, like food, like fish,
like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.
Chigozie Obioma
#25. If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.
A.F. Stewart
#27. You find any more dead bodies, someone would think you owned a mystery bookstore in Pasadena.
Rhys Ford
#28. Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.
Graham Moore
#29. Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
Libba Bray
#30. People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead - because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.
Ilona Andrews
#31. Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.
Amit Kalantri
#32. How many dead bodies does it take for an assassin to grow a conscience?
J.A. Huss
#33. When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
Agatha Christie
#34. Why is everyone so eager to assume I'm nuts? Just because I blurt out random bizarre statements and find dead bodies that disappear before anyone else sees them?
K.C. Held
#35. In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.
Henry Rollins
#36. There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done,
Mark Driscoll
#37. Jenny: Do you mind going back downstairs?
Damian: Why?
Jenny: Because I don't want any dead bodies in my bathroom.
Damian: ...We don't have to keep it in here.
Jenny: GET OUT!
Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
#38. That's perfect, isn't it? I'm sex and money; you're dead bodies. What a team we are ."
"Best to stick with our strengths.
J.D. Robb
#39. No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."
Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"
Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
Alane Ferguson
#40. I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.
Bushwick Bill
#41. For some stupid reason, I had this irrational need to prove to Cooper that I could inspect dead bodies over black coffee and maple bars just like him and the other guys on the police force.
(Violet Parker)
Ann Charles
#42. What's the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don't get any deader.
David Harry
#43. A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'
Nathan Winograd
#44. Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.
Henry Rollins
#46. Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.
Cassandra Clare
#47. A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are."
"But there aren't any dead people here today."
Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried. "That's why I brought my own.
Meljean Brook
#48. Bruce chooses the dead bodies he finds very carefully. They never have young kids.
Mike Bove
#49. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the
Robyn Schneider
#50. He was a guy. A guy guy. As far as I was concerned, he probably had the dead bodies of small children and puppies hidden in his locker.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#51. This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh
This little piggy violated virgins
And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top
Neil Gaiman
#52. For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.
Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
#53. Darkus held up The Code and quickly tore out the page he'd been reading. Knightley winced. He'd seen many dead bodies and witnessed many brutal crimes, but there was still something violent about ripping a book.
Rohan Gavin
#54. Fritz hates dead bodies in the front hall.
J.R. Ward
#55. If you're going to ask me if the muffins are low fat, you should know I'm running out of places to hide all the dead bodies.
Jill Shalvis
#56. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
George Amos Dorsey
#57. I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
Steven Galloway
#58. When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
Paul Fussell
#59. Do you sense any dead bodies nearby? I don't know if we'll need them, but it would be nice to be prepared.
Amanda Carlson
#60. There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
Colin Trevorrow
#61. The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies.
Mark Simpson
#62. You met over a pile of dead bodies mere days ago. Now he's carving little radish garnishes and humming to himself. It's creepy.
Sharon Ashwood
#63. If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.
John Shaw Billings
#64. In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
Gore Vidal
#65. Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
Ellie Goulding
#66. Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Robert Falcon Scott
#67. Someone told me "stop telling everybody that the United States government is Terrorist and this country has been made by blood over millions of dead-bodies." I was thinking: "wasn't for the same reason I have been kicked out from Iran?
Kambiz Shabankareh
#68. But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.
PJ Harvey
#69. Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.
Koji Suzuki
#70. It's better that you leave her alone," she said. "There isn't just water under your bridge, there's maggots and shit and dead bodies. Now, get the fuck out of my house before I call the police.
Tarryn Fisher
#71. The dead bodies I saw all stayed that way. ( ... ) Death is usually ugly, but always complete.
Heather Graham
#72. Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!
George MacDonald
#73. In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
Denise Mina
#74. You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal coffins to "protect" them. From what?
Carl Abrahamsson
#75. I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?
Jim Norton
#76. I can't be seen climbing through no hearse's hatchback! It used to be dead bodies back there!" "You a lie. Me and my woman ain't dead," Cousin Shake insisted. My eyes popped wide open. The visual he'd just painted was about to send me crazy. "Cousin
Ni-Ni Simone
#78. Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.
James Sallis
#79. Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
Jack Herer
#80. This is an Aston Martin, Gin.You don't run over dead bodies in an Aston Matin."
"Tell that to James Bond
Jennifer Estep
#81. And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.
Anonymous
#82. You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
Lily King
#83. Ma'am," Cline said, "I hid under dead bodies less cold than you." He glanced at Harper and
Joe Hill
#84. Dead bodies plus a hit of absinthe are really the best cure for that insane little man.
Michelle Gable
#85. Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
H.G.Wells
#86. In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Panayiotis Zavos
#87. I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Wovoka
#88. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
Nora Roberts
#89. The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.
Douglas Coupland
#90. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish
Jeaniene Frost
#91. The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men.
H.S. Jarrett
#92. Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
Anonymous
#93. The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
Ernie Pyle
#94. I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler ... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.
Robert Crais
#95. Here you lie in the tremendous web. Others are about you, but they are whole - whole hearts and bodies. But all of you that lives is back there walking the desolate seas in evening winds. This thing here, this cold clay thing, is already dead.
Ray Bradbury
#96. The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth.
Rick Riordan
#97. Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.
Michael Bassey
#98. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
Kevin Williamson
#99. Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#100. Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?
Jeff VanderMeer
