Skin Quotes

2392 Skin quotes by 1621 unique authors

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so… — Darrin Patrick
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself,… — Unknown Author
The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. — Socrates
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace. — Unknown Author
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik
If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin. — Jill Ciment
I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. — Courteney Cox
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or… — Charles Handy
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but… — Demi Moore
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,… — Crescent Dragonwagon
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a… — Gwendolyn Brooks
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps — Frank Iero
It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to… — Claire Messud
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. — Alice Munro
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one… — Lucian Freud
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive… — John Holdren
So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one — Zack de la Rocha
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the… — Michel Serres
Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it… — Colson Whitehead
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to… — Mary Gaitskill
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex. — Unknown Author
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. — David Antin
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own. — Dorothy West

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