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Definition of Corpse

Corpse

A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

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Also, Being, Body, Contemptuously, Dead, Fig, General, Human, In, Living, Of, Or, Sometimes, The, Used, Whether

Corpse Quotations

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus

Under each formula lies a corpse.
Emile M. Cioran

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
John Derek

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
Janice Dickinson

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
Michael Stipe

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.
Helena Bonham Carter

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.
Helena Bonham Carter

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
Poppy Z. Brite

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
Alexander Herzen

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Fernando Pessoa

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
Ross MacDonald

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
Eric Holder

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
J. M. Barrie

Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
Daniel Taradash

She made a ravishing corpse.
Ronald Firbank

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Corpse Translations

corpse in Afrikaans is lyk
corpse in Dutch is lijk, kadaver, kreng
corpse in Finnish is ruumis
corpse in French is cadavre
corpse in German is Leiche
corpse in Hungarian is hulla, tetem
corpse in Italian is salma
corpse in Latin is corpus corporis
corpse in Norwegian is lik
corpse in Swedish is lik

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