“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”

page 154
Source: Suttree (1979)
Context: Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 129

The Unnamable (1954)

"The Psychoanalyst Kierkegaard", p. 87
The Denial of Death (1973)

You Each Time
Song lyrics

During an interview with H. R.<!-- Hubert Renfro --> Knickerbocker (1939), quoted in A Life of Jung (2002) by Ronald Hayman, p. 360
Variant: No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps.
Context: No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation — because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

Source: Fang

During the Iowa State Fair (2015 August 15)
2010s, 2015