Organs Quotes
507 Organs quotes by 389 unique authors
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My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
— Woody Allen
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
— Anais Nin
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices…
— James Joyce
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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
— George Eliot
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But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place…
— Joan Didion
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a…
— Bruno Schulz
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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree…
— Marshall McLuhan
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...the heart is an organ of fire.
— Michael Ondaatje
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed…
— Sarah Waters
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
— Voltaire
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There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things…
— Michael Ondaatje
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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.
— Donita K. Paul
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You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
— Woody Allen
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The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,…
— Brandon Mull
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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
— John Irving
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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall,…
— Eoin Colfer
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I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I…
— Philip K. Dick
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The heart is an organ of perception.
— Surya Das
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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian…
— Lionel Shriver
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Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes,…
— Seraphim Rose
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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the…
— Philip K. Dick
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
Who Wrote These Organs Quotes
389 authors contributed a total of 507 Organs Quotes, led by these top contributors: