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.
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
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.
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?
Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for. . . we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty. . . the Italian people are a race of sheep.
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!
The drunken man is a living corpse.
I hope you die. . . . P. S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.