Top 288 Corpse Quotes & Sayings

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Gold is the corpse of value.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

She made a ravishing corpse.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Still alive? (Randy) No. I’m a walking corpse. Can’t you tell? (Steele)

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.