Quotes About Decomposition

of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

Robert Boyle (1626-1691) had defined an element as a substance which could not be decomposed, but which could enter into combination with other elements giving compounds capable of decomposition into these original elements.

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

Composer" is a word which here means "a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play." This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

No two bodies will decompose in the same way, and at the same rate. You can have two bodies that are literally six feet apart and they will decompose in entirely different manners. It could be the amount of fat on the body. It could be the drugs they were taking, or the medication. It could be the type of clothing they're wearing. It could be that one has a particular odour that is more attractive to flies than the other. Absolutely anything.

After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m.

Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess.

deliquescing

medalla, ¡oh príncipe!, fue grabada por un profundo conocedor del misticismo numérico. Los antiguos creían que ciertos números tenían un poder mágico. El "tres" era divino, el "siete" era el número sagrado. Los siete rubíes que vemos aquí revelan la preocupación del artista en relacionar el número 128 con el número 7. El número 128 es, como sabemos, susceptible de descomposición

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

If a body has decomposed on a crime scene there is usually a black stain left on the ground, caused by the body fluids and the insect activity. The odour can also often still be detected and sometimes there are still maggots or their shells left behind.