You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Marcus AureliusTags: soul mind-over-body corpse incarnation
The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time before slipping into the pit – be warmed by the light of the sun.
Jan NerudaTags: death burial funeral corpse coffin
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
Bertolt BrechtTags: reality death corpse objectivity
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!
Gaston LerouxTags: love crying mask face corpse phantom-of-the-opera gaston-leroux
She lit the candelabras which stood on the mantelpiece. Placed at the head of the bead, on a side-table, they looked like two burning bushes, their flames solemn and inextinguishable. But beneath that avalanche of light the dead man became hideous: the pale head displayed a whiteness more livid than the bedsheet, ghastly against the cambric of the pillow; pits of shadow were hollowed out under the eyes and his nose was villainously elongated, and even the mouth seemed wicked – his mouth, which was so very gentle!
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
Koushun TakamiThe 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 HustvedtTags: woman corpse simulacra robot android
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
Ray BradburyThe mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.
Jennifer BirkettTags: art corruption vice mask seduction corpse thrills squalor
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 BrontëTags: death heathcliff corpse catherine cemetery
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