Quotes About Corpse

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware

This whole city is most certainly a pitiful corpse, while the neighborhood outside the walls of this bar has the distinction of being the withering heart of the deceased. And I am a devoted student of its anatomy—a pathologist, after a fashion, with an eye for necroses that others overlook.

André of the graveyards—a sociable corpse.

That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.

They desecrated graves and stole funerary trinkets and jewelry. They removed the dead person's flesh and ground it up to make a lethal poison called "corpse powder," which the skinwalkers blew into people's faces, giving them the "ghost sickness." Even a fingernail paring or a strand of hair from a dead person could be used by a skinwalker to perform diabolical things.

what are you but a corpse waiting to be washed?

She didn't turn but ran down the length of the beach, searching the sand and the water, looking for any hint as to where the body had been moved. "What, Alex?" Jay shouted. "You saw a corpse, but it rolled down the beach to catch the sun better?" She stopped then, whirling around. "It's moved," she said, walking back to where Jay stood. "Your corpse got up and walked?

Darrow was obviously struggling to create a story where there wasn't one yet. Eve didn't blame her for that. If Eve had her way, Darrow wouldn't have to wait long. Every corpse, even one that was just scattered bones for now, had a story. It was Eve's job to find it.

this was not about being forgotten. This was about being in a file cabinet with my name on it and they closed the door. I was a corpse with a tag on my toe. A

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Matha Alayna 'an naf'al?" he asked aloud. What should we do? The boys stood in a circle, staring silently at the corpse. Then they reacted like teenagers around the world. They pulled out their phones and began snapping photos to text to their friends.

At sunrise of the third day, I saw the corpse's chest begin to rise and fall and I heard the first intake of breath—a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch.

I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over.

Stated most simply, New Death is the condition whereby human corpses now lie always on a horizontal vector—no matter the angle of the surface or the substance of the matter below them—and now orient so that their feet are facing all observers, all the time.

H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat.

But the father answered never a word,A frozen corpse was he.

He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that the thing which had received such imperfect animation would subside into dead matter, and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench forever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life.

I guess the decay of a corpse is progress, too . . . from the point of view of the bacteria.

All right,' Owen said. 'Let's have a closer look, then.' He picked up a large scalpel from the instrument trolley at his side and brandished it dramatically over the corpse like a sacrificial dagger. 'God, I bet you were unbearable at med school,' said Gwen.

The corpse of a NightWing guard lay beneath the dirt in a hastily dug hollow,

The English, once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going to be comfortable in them.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

It's gone!" he shouted. "The brandy!" said Prudie, lurching to her feet. "'Ere, who's stolen it? 'Twas there an hour gone—" "Not all three kegs!" said Constable Vage, instantly alert. "Why we did oughter have heard them. They couldn't move three kegs without—" "Nay," said Ned Bottrell, shouting above the clamor. "Not the drink, the corpse!

It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.