Best Skull Words
219 Skull quotes by 179 unique authors
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Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on…
— Bob Dylan
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A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
— Eoin Colfer
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You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
— Tao Lin
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After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,…
— David Sedaris
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I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent…
— Rumi
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at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding…
— Louis L'Amour
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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up…
— David Benioff
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
— George Orwell
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A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I…
— Markus Zusak
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You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for…
— Ilona Andrews
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The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I…
— Annie Dillard
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You should have seen the look on your skull...
— Rich Burlew
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Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against…
— Moira J. Moore
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
— Annie Dillard
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Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn…
— Jim Butcher
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Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.…
— Jennifer Rardin
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The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
— Aleister Crowley
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space…
— Hilary Mantel
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Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his…
— Rick Riordan
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Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old…
— Samuel Beckett
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I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him…
— Sonya Sones
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