Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. — Sylvia Plath
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that… — John Keats
That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your… — Cassandra Clare
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish… — Charles Baudelaire
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes… — Mary Ann Shaffer
But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and… — Nick Hornby
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell… — Julia Gregson
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. — Steven Morrissey
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers… — Richard Brautigan
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their… — Rabindranath Tagore
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

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