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Quotes About Charnel

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Commoners' bones may have been dug up again and slung into a charnel house: for royalty, burial was for ever.
~ Catharine Arnold
Kai stepped close, circled to face his prey, and wrapped his hand around the ghoul's throat. "Do mortals just walk into your charnel house all the time? Am I one? Am I stupid?" The ghoul choked out, "I didn't know you were a…" "Say it." Kai smiled. "… a demon." "You idiot." Kai leaned closer to whisper, "I'm the demon.
~ Martha Wells
And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief Convulse is & consume us Day by day And cold hopes swarm Like worms within Our living clay
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley