Essays Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Everyone is naked under his clothes and everyone is a foreigner outside his native lands.”

— Gisli Palsson

“The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind”

— Martin Walser

“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici

“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the…

— David Grann

“Nakedness is nakedness. We all wanted comfort.”

— Kate Holden

“Here is my naked body. Take a long look at what nobody else can look at. And hurry up, before all the spectators show…

— Jarod Kintz

“More than nakedness, for there is no cover to take. The fire in your eyes is ringed with water; wide and cool. We are…

— Donna Goddard

“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home…

— Ellen Meloy

“But eventually, we all must heal. Why does your nakedness offend you? You were the inspiration for all of the earth, every rolling hill…

— Key Ballah