Best Carrion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators

“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.”

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Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

Doe Wisdom Earth Bird Inspired Smell Thrive Ravens Carrion

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.”

Men Firsts Made Two Soul Ends Body Moving House Loss Lord Dog Son Cost Bird Brilliant Rage Fighter Broke Goddess Doomed Muse Achilles Zeus Iliad Sturdy Hurling Rage From The Iliad Agamemnon Carrion

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”

Men May I Can Lasts Wish Cry Comfort Despair Thee Weary Strands Carrion

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”

Want Said Earth House Voice Views Saws Sky Rocks Bird Hundred Horse What You Want Temples Gaps Jail Guests They Said Palaces Files Tanks Riders Carrion

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.”

Men War Earth Dog Cry Deeds Smell Foul Burial Havoc Groaning Carrion War Cry Dogs Of War

Author:William Shakespeare

“All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.”

Humans May States Science Process Bird Smell Noses Meat Dull Decay Scent Afar Carrion

Book:The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

Source: The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How

“The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!”