Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your… — Khalil Gibran
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But youâ€™ll have no sense of self… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every… — Sharon Shinn
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the… — Chaim Potok
I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to doâ€”like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were… — Rick Riordan
The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it -… — Gregory Maguire
Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward… — Eoin Colfer
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This… — Eckhart Tolle
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something,… — Cassandra Clare
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie,… — Jandy Nelson
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,… — Oscar Wilde
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a… — Kate Forsyth
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well… — Sylvia Plath
Hickory dickory dock my daddyâ€™s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A… — Dalton Trumbo
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt… — Kristin Hannah
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe… — Denise Levertov
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is… — David Rakoff
You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it. — Elizabeth Hand
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction,… — Ismail KadarÃ©
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell. — Eileen Wilks

Who Wrote These Shell Quotes

410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: