Quotes / I Love the Dead

"Loving you...
Loving you...
Love-love-loving you
Was like loving the dead.
Was like fucking the dead!"

— Type O Negative, "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"

"There's no pain and there's no pressure
No verbal humiliation
There's no fear, there's no shame
There's no pulse, so is it so strange?"

— Voltaire, "Dead Girls"

Shao Kahn: Honey, I'll get it in a moment.

Sindel (over phone): Actually, I was joking around. We've got an actual crisis.

Shao Kahn: Are the Saurians invading or something?

Sindel (over phone): Kitana's dating.

Shao Kahn: That's not really a crisis.

Sindel (over phone): It's Kang.

Shao Kahn: ...Please tell me that Raiden or Nightwolf at least fully resurrected him fi-

Sindel (over phone): ...Nope.

Shao Kahn: *gives the most squicked-out face imaginable*

— We Are Our Avatars

"I love dead people. (Beat) Frequently."

— Necromancer chatter, War Craft III

Thief: Smells like paint thinner.
Black Mage: Might not be.
Thief: You know, she could die if she drinks this.
Black Mage: The way I see it, the body takes a while to cool. So either way, I get what I want.
Red Mage: That... may be the worst thing you have ever said.

— 8-Bit Theater

"I'll tear your heart out, then I will love you when you're dead."

— Terrorwheel, "Under Your Skin"

"Dude, if she’s hot enough, she doesn’t need a pulse."

— Anonymous

Even nigrimancy itself underwent its own renaissance then, because not only were the spirits being dealt with, the necromancers thought it was fun to stick their dicks in the corpses or cock-ride dead men — which of course, angered the spiriti that used to reside in those bodies, making them easier to compel.

—Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Giovanni (Revised)

[When disposing of a corpse]
Malory: Is Kreiger hard at work?
Archer: He literally might be.

— Archer, "Lo Scandalo"

"You can call it necrophilia and say it's vile

I just know I wanna do it George Romero style"

— Seanan McGuire, Some Girls

C'mon now, mate — gotta have standards. I know we're shootin' and rapin', but necrophilia's a step too far!

— Sigmund, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, when Freud attempts this trope

No information — historical, experimental, or otherwise — has surfaced regarding the results of sexual relations with an undead specimen, but as previously noted, the nature of Solanum suggests a high danger of infection. Warning against such an act would be useless, as the only people deranged enough to try would be unconcerned for their own safety.

— The Zombie Survival Guide

Falanu Hlaalu: By the way... do you happen to know what the fine is here in Cyrodiil for necrophilia? Just asking.
Hero of Kvatch: Is it the first offense?
Falanu: Let's assume 'no'.
Hero: Then it's at least 500 gold.
Falanu: That's nothing compared to Morrowind. Thanks.

— The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

"I hear there's those who do it with dead bodies," whispers Tiny confidentially.

"Are you mad?," says Porta. "You'd go straight to Hell!"

— The Bloody Road to Death by Sven Hassel.

"The reds are so red! It really gets me hot!"

—Wanda on a photograph of a dead child, The Toxic Avenger

"What's the matter, Graverobber? Can't get it up if the girl's breathing?"

—Amber Sweet, Repo! The Genetic Opera

Judy Cassidy: A funeral parlor way out here?
Max: Sure, it's nice and cozy right next to the old cemetery. And rumor has it that Old Man Hull really loved his clientele. I mean in a carnal sense.

—Night of the Demons (1988)

Gendo: I haven't been this thrilled since I boned my dead wife.
Fuyutsuki: Uh, you mean "cloned her", right sir? Sir? [Gendo smirks] Sir?

— NGE One-Shot - Card Games for Charity

How would you have it? Every man to his own tastes. Mine is for corpses.

—Henri Blot

"What, you're gonna do sex to me when I'm dead?"

—Vanessa Lutz to Bob Wolverton, Freeway

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