BONES QUOTES II

quotations about bones

Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it will rain? Good bones, good bones, I coax, wondering how to reward them; if they will sit up for me, beg, roll over, do one more trick, once more. There. We're at the top. Good bones! Good bones! Keep on going.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Good Bones and Simple Murders


O ye dry bones, hear the word of the lord.

BIBLE

Ezekiel 37:4


They have made no bones at it.

RICHARD SHACKLOCK

Hatcher of Heresies


If a dog's prayers were answered, it would rain bones.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

KING SOLOMON

Proverbs 14:30


I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

BIBLE

Psalms 22:17


I have a bone in my throat and cannot speak.

ERASMUS

Adagia


The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


Bones bring meat to town.

THOMAS FULLER

Profane State


As it is, little folks' bones are like the tough young boughs on a tree, that bend sooner than break; but old bones are like dry branches, and cannot bend without snapping asunder.

EMILY COULDEN

"A New Puzzle", Good Things, 1878


Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Tempest


Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King John


Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


All we are is all alone
Man is made of flesh and bone

BON JOVI

"Flesh and Bone"


I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.

ANNE SPOLLEN

The Shape of Water


What this country needs are more men with less bone in the head, and more bone in the back.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach-blossom complexion.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Conduct of Life


Bones for those who come late.

LATIN PROVERB


I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

FRANZ KAFKA

Letters to Milena


She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

JEFFERSON SMITH

Strange Places