• The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

  Herman Melville
  American author 1819-1891
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unpleasantness
2. presumable
3. unlawfully
4. tenanting
5. defunct
6. carcass

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. by : Herman Melville

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