"Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can..."
- Gaston Leroux
"God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse."
- Ellen Hopkins
"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."
- Ray Bradbury
"Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity."
- Bertolt Brecht
"The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time before slipping int..."
- Jan Neruda
"The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had alw..."
- Ambrose Bierce
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves ..."
- Jennifer Birkett
"Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed"
- Munia Khan
"I crawled over the mountain of death, Watching the corpses roll down like the stones. Searching for the light which everyone always spoke of. I fought the wolves and also the death, and knocked the do..."
- Akshay Vasu