Quotation Explorer - 'Corpses'

These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of the slaughter, Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. - Stephen Crane
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. - Randy K. Milholland
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. - John C. Wright
To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. - Amadeo Bordiga
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. - Brian W. Aldiss
I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses. - Sylvia Plath
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. - George Konrád
I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost. - Civil War general George McClelland, quoted in Surgeon in Blue
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. - Gary Snyder
A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. - Minda Webber
I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside. - Akshay Vasu
The burned corpses of the doppelgängers of Hitler and Braun, numerous false leads, meticulously orchestrated evidence, misdirection, and other diversions now being set in place will confuse the Americans and Russians, Zeller knew, and, in the end, put them at each other’s throats. - Paul Majkut
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity. - Bertolt Brecht
It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company. - Billie-Jo Williams
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