' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way.
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
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.
Death is an art, you know.
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.
Wish all my corpses would do that.
The only way I'll really smile is if you cut me ear to ear.
I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
I would never say, 'Ooh, let's do something really dark.'
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.
How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.
