Embalm Quotes


You walk back there and see a box lying on a pile of junk -- a deceased individual laid out in a burial suit, a blue suit, obviously embalmed in the box he was supposed to be cremated in -- decomposed. - John Bankhead


We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. - Henry David Thoreau


There are no laws that I know of, from speaking with the state's attorney's office, that requires a body to be embalmed. However if that's what you paid for, we're treating this as a theft of service or fraud. The family believed they paid for one thing and they received another. - Chris Sullivan


The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics. - Antonin Artaud


So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. - Bible


Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. - Florence King


She started to receive abusive phone calls from angry citizens who accused her of embalming her daughter. - Mario Gonzalez


Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. - Andre Bazin


One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. - Dustin Hoffman


O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes. - John Keats


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