Corpse Quotes

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

Art, Sheep, Innovation

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

Faith, Morning, Doubt

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus

Soul, Around, Carrying

He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
John Derek

Good, Live, Die

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

Life, Love, Positive

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

Happiness, Lost, Him

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie

Good, Jealousy, Wishes

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

Life, Once, Absence

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

Nothing, Cannot, Stubborn

Under each formula lies a corpse.
Emile M. Cioran

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

Bad, Gone, Cheese

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.
Helena Bonham Carter

Morning, Play, Said

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
Janice Dickinson

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

Character, Away, Else

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter

Sad, Short, Around

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

Wedding, Father, Wanted

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo

War, Hero, Loser

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Shirley Manson

Sad, Beautiful, Made

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
Michael Stipe

Wanted, Feet, Six

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

Today, Lost, Remember

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick

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.
George Wald

Death, Long, Before

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Father, Carry, Everywhere

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder

Reality, American, Reading

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
Eric Holder

Reality, American, Reading

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'
Stephen Hunter

Funny, Poor, American

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
Tom Hardy

Fear, Ourselves, Hold

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
Lynn Margulis

Either, Exciting, Warm

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