Robin Williams Quotes

The mortician interviewing the corpses

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

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

Your words smell of corpses.

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.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.