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“That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.”

Heart Happened Window Accounts Suicide Bars Chill Corpses Spine Frail

Book:Les Belles Images

Source: Les Belles Images

“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.”

Time Turns Wife Our Love Corpses Old Days Derision

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.”

Looks Stills War Enough Would Be Today Saws Hundred Corpses

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“Men without joy seem like corpses.”

Men Seems Joy Corpses

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”

Lasts Sleep Struggle Heard Economic Revolution Demand Judgment Victim Soldier Arise Curse Awake Collapse Crash Corpses Loaded Accounting Proletariat Fanfare Economic Collapse

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.”

Knows Mother Dies Father Sound Seeing Crazy Teaching Serious Impact Come Up Corpses Deer Walt Citing Stags

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.”

Ifs Knows Problem Suffering Causes Black Water Quality Disease Victim Programming Software Agony Plague Corpses Pouring Software Engineering Sewage

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.”

People Heart Has Beens Reason Body Successful Taken Policy Movement News Prepared Population Proof Vitality Corpses Reflexes

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.”

Soul Faces Poetry Found Hell Blood Creatures Neighborhood Shells Corpses Hounds

Author:Michael Jackson

“Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.”

Ifs Buddhist Rescue Floating Drowning Corpses

Author:Tom Hardy