#corpse

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it... ↗

— Emily Brontë

#cemetery #corpse #death #heathcliff #change

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother. ↗

— Michael Grant

#death #fayz #mother #death

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after. ↗

— William Napier

#corpses #death #death

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#love

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ↗

— David Bowie

#absolute #challenging #confront #confrontation #corpse

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

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. ↗

— Tim Burton

#bonham-carter #depp #helena #johnny #stop

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#god #love #love

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#appeals #away #chance #character #corpse