Dead Body Quotes

“May the dead body of agony remain asleep
resting its head on a pillow of flowers.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“[...] Mom’s not keeping me out because it’s a dead friend, she’s keeping me out because it’s a dead sixteen-year-old girl with no clothes on’
‘And that’s officially the creepiest thing you’ve ever said,’ said Lauren. She stopped typing, and then grimaced and shivered, like she’d just eaten something disgusting. ‘Seriously – yuck.’
I smiled. ‘I’ve got a live girlfriend – what do I need a dead one for?’
[…]
Lauren folded her arms. ‘How do I know you’re not just trying to get her out of the house for your own nefarious purposes?’
I smiled. ‘What kind of trouble am I going to get into? The dead girl doesn’t get here until tomorrow.”
― Dan Wells, I Don't Want to Kill You

“How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I believe the day Einstein feared the most is when people circulate pictures of dead bodies of relatives on WhatsApp and get Thumbs Down and Crying smileys as response.”
― Ketan Waghmare

“The full moon cast an eerie glow through thick ancient dark woods. In the shadows around a tree, the serial killer ran his knife lovingly over Chelsea’s trussed dead body. She lay, as if posed for a photo, wearing only bloody pink underpants.”
― H Raven Rose, Dark Eros

“It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“She might be dead, but she was on a plane out of Turin in mid-August.”
― Phil Hall, Murder O'clock

“Simple really, the only future I see before me is one of mass famine, severe droughts, wildfires and floods.”
― Phil Hall, Murder O'clock

“How could I not love it, the mere idea of it? How could it not be worth the greatest danger, the greatest and most ghastly defeat? Even at the moment of destruction, I would be alive as I have never been.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Killing a couple of civilians would be nothing to these people. Don’t be taken in by their all sweet, ‘we’re trying to save the planet propaganda’. This is a murder case.”
― Phil Hall, Murder O'clock

“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was exciting; it was exhilarating, it was invigorating; to say nothing of electrifying and above all, satisfying.
How could I tell the dear man that murder made me feel so gloriously alive?”
― Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

“It takes me a while to drag him out, he's got himself stuck to the axle, and by the time I am done and stand over the body something strange has started to happen. The alley's filled with a half-dozen cats, runty little things with their ribs showing and their tails worn high like they're pointing to the moon. I stand there, breathing froth into the snowflakes and watch them gather round me, soft kitty paws, and now and then a patrol car rolls past in the distance. The cats are circling us, tails cocked at the moon, their muzzles bloodied by the tail lights' glow. They are vicious bastards, let me tell you: frost on their whiskers, eyes like cut glass, a half-dozen pairs, on me and the dead man. And then they start licking. Licking at the snow I mean, the blood in the snow, they lap it up like mother's milk. And all the while from their throats, from their whole bodies, there issues this sound, you hear it with your skin, it's like an engine running under your palm. That's when I realize they are purring, man, purring as they feed on the midget's death.”
― Dan Vyleta, Pavel & I

“You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren’t too picky, when you come to it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, A Collector of Spirits

“In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Lavonas atrodydavo kaip tuščias vabzdžio kiautas voratinklyje - esybė būdavo išnykusi, šviesa išnykusi, nelikę to iliuzinio švytėjimo, kurį skleidžia kadai užgesusios žvaig��dės. Kūnas būdavo netekęs sielos. Ir būtent sielos nebuvimas įkvėpė Harį tikėti.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“The dust shall settle down, shall not the spirit”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It’s the reality of life that the body will expire one day. Death for the body is inevitable, but you are not that body nor your old body. Tell me, can the eyes of a dead body see? Can the mouth of a dead body talk?”
― L.A. Golding, Lerkus: A Journey to End All Suffering

“To prove you are alive, people want to see you in six pack body; To prove you are dead, people want to see you in six feet packed dead body. Crazy people, crazy world”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“One thing that doesn't get burned with your dead body is your backbone, don't bend it for any dash, indeed a bone shall crack rather shall never bend”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“We didn’t find him for three days because we didn’t realize he was missing. That’s the saddest part of this story. He’d hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents’ house and the neighbors’, out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Dark Dark

“I think it started when Mercado told us we might run into a dead body.”
― Carleton Prince, Cenote: An AA McCay Novel

“Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Don't try to make me feel bad for you,' Pip told him quietly, turning away to study the buttons and dials on the control panel. 'You evil piece of shit.”
― HOLLY JACKSON

“Well, too bad. I found a dead body and it won't stay fresh for long.
See you soon!”
― Frances Wren, Earthflown

“Madame Chalamet is a professional. I let her talk with my dead bodies all the time.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker