Moving forward Quote by Kōbō Abe

Nothing ever goes as planned, it's a hell of a notion. Even pharaohs turn to sand, like a drop in the ocean.

— Styx

We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order…

— Neil Gaiman

“You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy…

— Anonymous

“Power tasted like an oyster, like I'd swallowed the sea, all it's memories and calm and rot and brutality.”

— Jillian Lauren

“Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have”

— Sylvia Plath

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

— Gore Vidal

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle…

— Christopher Morley

“An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to…

— Mark Twain

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

— Plato

I live absolutely like an oyster.

— Gustave Flaubert

“I've always tried to face life like an oyster does--when given grit, give back a pearl. Ted Miller Brogden”

— Ted Miller Brogden

When you continue to dwell on the past, there's no chance for a future. History repeats itself, thus, it's ok to LOOK back at…

— Anonymous