Carrion Quotes:

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Wisdom, Ravens, Smell, Carrion

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

- John Harvey Kellogg

source: "Romance of the Cow" by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, p. 81, 1938.

topic: Lying, Sheep, Cows, Butchers, Carrion

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

- Cormac McCarthy

source: Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

topic: Attitude, Dark, Wings, Carrion

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

source: 'Duns Scotus's Oxford' (written 1879)

topic: Men, Wish, Despair, Carrion

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Dog, War, Men, Havoc, Groaning

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.290

topic: Bird, Natural, Prey, Carrion, Birds Of Prey

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Horse, Voice, Jail, Carrion

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

topic: Sin, Measure For Measure, Tempted, Carrion

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Tyrants, Use, Injustice, Carrion

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

- John Harvey Kellogg

source: John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

topic: Smell, Bird, Meat, Carrion

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

- Homer

source: Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

topic: Dog, Moving, Loss, Sturdy, Agamemnon

Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

- Praveen Kumar

source: Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

topic: Running, Flames, Fuel, Operating Systems, Carrion

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

- JoAnn Ross

source: JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tragedy, Feds, Humans, Carrion

They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Real, People, Evil, Carrion

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Live Life, Mean, Years, Lackeys, Carrion

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

- John Harvey Kellogg

source: John Harvey Kellogg (1921). “The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease”

topic: Food, Science, Turkeys, Carrion, Hyenas