#corpses

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

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. ↗

— Gig Young

#epics #people #snoring #specialties #spectacular

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#corpses #days #death #derision #division

Many corpses will be floating in the sea. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#floating #many #sea #will

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#childhood #corpses #dies

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

— William Napier

#corpses #death #death

This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#hades #humor #nursery-rhymes #piggy #pigs

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#corpses #dance #finished #making #monarchy

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

— Theophile Gautier

#corpses #critical #desert #lice #like

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing