#corpse

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#incarnation #mind-over-body #soul #meditation

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#class #class struggle #constraints #corpse #everyday

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#feet #hysterical #i #really #six

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#corpses #critical #desert #lice #like

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

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ↗

— Heraclitus

#fit #more #out #than #thrown

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like