#corpse

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#beautiful #buried #casket #corpse #cried

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#degenerate #die #gamble #gambled #gambler

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ↗

— James Joyce

#corpse #milk #well

She made a ravishing corpse. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#made #she

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

Your words smell of corpses. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#smell #words #your

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ↗

— James Joyce

#cheese #corpse #gone #meat #milk

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. ↗

— Epictetus

#carrying #corpse #little #soul #you

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ↗

— David Brin

#apologize #come #corpses #late #must

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#corpse #get #i #just #like