#corpse

Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse. ↗

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

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#arms #awakening #corpse #danced #doubt

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

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#baby #bride #corpse #every #father

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#corpse #robot #simulacra #woman #life

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse. ↗

— David S.E. Zapanta

#corpse #death #rebirth #undead #zombies

Many corpses will be floating in the sea. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#floating #many #sea #will

Does Ziploc make body bags? I’ll bet the corpses would stay fresher for longer if they did.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#corpse #death #decomposing #decomposition #die

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗