quotations about bones
Thy bones are marrowless.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Trout Fishing in America
I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave
I feel so alone, gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones
ALICE IN CHAINS
"Them Bones", Dirt
Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.
M. JONES
Frankie & Formaldehyde
He that gives thee a bone would not have thee die.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns
NEIL GAIMAN
The Graveyard Book