Cadavers Quotations

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.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

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.

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.