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Skull Quotes (page 5)

Brian Aldiss quote: "It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are..."
It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. Brian Aldiss
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Barbara Kingsolver
George Orwell quote: "Reality is inside the skull."
Reality is inside the skull. George Orwell
Honore de Balzac quote: "Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts,..."
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? Honore de Balzac
How can she who had torn his heart open at the waterworks with her art lie now like a human in his arms? Or stand catatonic in front of bananas on Eastern Avenue deciding which bunch to buy? Does this make her more magical? As if a fabulous heron in flight has fallen dead at his feet and he sees the further wonder of its meticulous construction. How did someone conceive of putting this structure of bones and feathers together, deciding on the weight of beak and skull, and give it the... Michael Ondaatje
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. Zora Neale Hurston
I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. David Foster Wallace
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
George Orwell quote: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic metres inside your..."
Nothing was your own except the few cubic metres inside your skull. George Orwell
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons,..."
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. Robert A. Heinlein
...en route to the final destination, which was always to get trashed, wasted, hammered, crunked up, bombed, wrecked, sloshed, fried, flapjacked, fucked-up, or get plainlong fucked, laid, drained, get some ass, get some head, some skull, a lube job, get your oil changed, get some brown sugar, quiff, goo, pussy... Tom Wolfe
Crimson flames tied through my ears. Rollin' high and mighty traps. Pounced with fire on flaming roads. Using ideas as my maps"We'll meet on edges, soon," said IProud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth"Rip down all hate," I screamed. Lies that life is black and white. Spoke from my skull. I dreamed. Romantic facts of musketeers. Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that... Bob Dylan
that is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him Vladimir Nabokov
Salman Rushdie quote: "Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull."
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. Salman Rushdie
Sylvia Plath quote: "The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull."
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull. Sylvia Plath

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