#stench

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#appeasement #i #seem #smell #stench

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

#corpse #death #decomposing #decomposition #die

Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#stench #writers

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either