Cadavers quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility."
"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."
"It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar."
"Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life."
"Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase."
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"Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape."