Skin And Bones Quotes

• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Skins, Stories, Way

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dream, Simple, Sorrow

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.329, A&C Black

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• The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Despair, Skins

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

  Barry Lyga

  Hate, Crazy, Skins

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• Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

  Alice Hoffman

  Skins, Bones, Fit

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• Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Skins

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You”, p.13, Random House

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• Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

  Aberjhani

  Color, Mind, Skins

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Skins, Junk

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• After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

  Elton John

  Religious, Angel, Glasses

  Song: Since God Invented Girls, Album: Reg Strikes Back

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• Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

  Tracy Chapman

  Numbness, Skins, Body

  Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995

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• My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

  Ellen Barkin

  Skins, Nicknames, Bones

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• Having ones image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once youve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

  Jack Gleeson

  Years, Ego, Skins

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• The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Knives, Arrows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.

  Joan Bauer

  Heart, Broken, Laughing

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• When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.

  Gregg Braden

  Heart, Expression, Creating

  FaceBook post by Gregg Braden from Jun 16, 2010

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• Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Angel, Thinking

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• All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.

  Richard Siken

  Stars, Fall, Believe

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• The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

  Donald Miller

  Cells, Hair, Skins

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• She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Father, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Eye, Differences

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• How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

  Louise Erdrich

  Past, Clouds, Blood

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.218, Odyssey Editions

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• No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

  Henry George

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

  Henry George, Kenneth C. Wenzer (1999). “Our Land and Land Policy”, MSU Press

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