#corpse

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#bombs #camps #chambers #corpses #countries

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ↗

— Sophocles

#breathing #call #corpse #happiness #him

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#feel #felt #lived #living #lost

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath. ↗

— Kat Rosenfield

#cry #death #youth #death

The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time before slipping into the pit – be warmed by the light of the sun. ↗

— Jan Neruda

#coffin #corpse #death #funeral #death

How came she by her death? How came she there? Was she slain by accident, or had she met with violence? were the questions that pressed upon our thoughts. But we said little then and after a time left her where we found her. It mattered not to her that the bed was hard or the air cold. ("A Night In An Old Castle") ↗

— George Payne Rainsford James

#dead #death #murder #death

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me! ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#crying #face #gaston-leroux #love #mask

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more