Bones Quote by Herman Melville

“In glades they meet skull after skull/Where pine-cones lay--the rusted gun,/Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat/And cuddled-up skeleton;/And scores of such. Some…

— Herman Melville

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The old man with the white beard had gone quite mad. He ripped his robes from his body and ran naked through the forest…

— Jennifer M. Baldwin

“Tenderly he drew on his lambswool gloves, and shivered a little; for the breath of that desert blew snell and frore and there seemed…

— E.R. Eddison

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Then a skeleton came out from among the trees. It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so…

— Irene Hunt

“the crystal air, with some of the efficacy of faith, seemed to remove the mountains almost to the sea, bringing them so near that…

— O. Henry

“She lit the candelabras which stood on the mantelpiece. Placed at the head of the bead, on a side-table, they looked like two burning…

— Remy de Gourmont

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

— Anna Akhmatova

“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward;…

— Evelyn Waugh