Your Skull Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret…
— Janet Morris
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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and…
— Maurice Sendak
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No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes…
— Anne Michaels
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How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
— Ray Bradbury
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When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
— Roberto Bolano
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Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?
— William T. Vollmann
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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of…
— David Eagleman
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Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.Â
— George Orwell
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You should have seen the look on your skull...
— Rich Burlew
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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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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull:…
— Jim Butcher
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Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing…
— George Orwell
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They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.
— Ilona Andrews
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were…
— Annie Dillard
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When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Your Skull Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Your Skull Quotes as follows: