Decomposition Of The Human Quotes & Sayings

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn't calculate my steps. I didn't have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are. — Alice Sebold

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific. — Michael Emerson

We work and that is godlike. — J.G. Holland

Eventually decomposition strips you bare, even in that solid oak you've taken the shape of. You've helped, finally, to enrich something around you, by feeding the soil with your skin and fat and muscle. Now the soil is full of phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and especially nitrogen. Now the soil is supremely satisfied, and you'd be okay with that. You always did like growing things. You always were better with plants than people. — Amber Sparks

Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell. — James Joyce

Then came the discovery that adrenochrome, which is a product of the decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed in mescalin intoxication. But adrenochrome probably occurs spontaneously in the human body. In other words, each one of us may be capable of manufacturing a chemical, minute doses of which are known to cause profound changes in consciousness. Certain — Aldous Huxley

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away. — Kristin Hannah

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. — Patrick Warburton

The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition. — Galileo Galilei

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom. — Winston S. Churchill

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. — Theodore Dalrymple

I am incapable of more knowledge. — Sylvia Plath

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done. — Thomas Hobbes