Quotes with corpses

  • Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Heraclitus Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Simone Weil Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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