Embalmer Quotes & Sayings

To The Undertaker or Friends Who Open This Coffin:

After laying back the lid of the coffin, remove entirely the pads from the sides of the face, as they are intended merely to steady the head in traveling. If there be any discharge of liquid from the eyes, nose, or mouth, which often occurs from the constant shaking of the cars, wipe it off gently with a soft piece of cotton cloth, slightly moistened.

This body was received by us for embalmment in a condition and the natural condition is preserved. Embalming was/was not possible.

After removing the coffin lid, leave it off for some time and let the body have the air.

Dr. Jupiter Jones, Embalmer & Keeper of the Dead — Edison McDaniels

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. — H.L. Mencken

All you have to do is flash those blue-green eyes and show your dimple and it's all over with. — Jenna Harte

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. — Lawrence R. Klein

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed. — Howard Moss

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering. — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it — Martin Luther King Jr.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job. — Matt Groening

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. — Henry Ward Beecher

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.' — Russell Baker

How long have you been in love with me?" he whispered.

"Always. — Tymber Dalton

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course. — Stephen King

Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art. — Gore Vidal

Tissue gas was an embalmer's worst nightmare - a highly infectious form of bacteria that thrived on dead tissue and released a noxious gas inside the body. Smell was usually the easiest way to detect it, but sometimes, as with this body, the smell was buried under other chemicals, and the only way to identify it was the 'skin-slip' Mom had found on the back, where interior gas bubbles separated the skin from the muscle. The gas itself was bad enough, because the stink would soon become so foul it would be all but impossible to cover up; that didn't reflect well on us when people showed up for the viewing. Even worse than the gas though, were the bacteria that made it. Once they got into your workspace, you might never get them out again. If we didn't put a stop to this right now, every body we embalmed would catch the same bacteria from our tools and table. It could destroy the entire business. — Dan Wells

However, Harry, my clock has stopped. The embalmer is rolling up his sleeves. Even as we speak, seventy-two virgins are slipping into schoolgirl uniforms for me. You must live, and I confirm: always put your penis first. — Hanif Kureishi

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art. — Gore Vidal

The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object. — Charles Bernheimer

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies. — Tobin Heath

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer. — Jack Spicer