Bones Quote by Ray Bradbury

“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles…

— Mary Shelley

he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls...

— Stephen King

With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had…

— Derek Landy

“In his bones he manifests almost in the form of mineral life, in fact, in his bones, body and blood mineral substances actually exist.”

— Yogi Ramacharaka

“He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished…

— Gabriel García Márquez

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. He…

— James Joyce

“The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than…

— Yukio Mishima

“The flesh covers the bones, and makes the spirit naked.”

— Anthony Liccione

His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few…

— Blake Crouch

“Just what did happen to a corpse under water for four, five years, even three? the tarpaulin or canvas would rot, perhaps more than…

— Patricia Highsmith

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

— Tracy Chapman