Being Quote by Iris Murdoch

“(People) ... we're clay. Living, breathing, thinking, feeling clay, and we can shape ourselves into anything we want, and we keep shaping ourselves all…

— Dan Wells, Ruins

“You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.”

— Robin LaFevers

“This flesh in which we live is nothing more than a cocoon, and only when we step out of it do we truly begin…

— Nancy Stephan

“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.”

— Michael West

“Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make…

— Geraldine Brooks

“They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.”

— China Miéville

“When your soul and mine have left our bodies and we are burried alongside each other, a Potter may one day mould the dust…

— Omar Khayyám

“We all come out of the womb needing love in order to grow and develop properly.”

— Ken Poirot

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. ”

— Jack Kerouac

“As for you, Man, you will be a naked tool all your life, though a user of tools. You will look like an embryo…

— T. H. White

“But what am I, if not an infant? Born into a world of decay. Relearning how to walk and talk. Suckling from the bosom…

— S.G. Browne