Anatomies Quotes

#1. For this, Love is enraged with me;
Yet kills not. If I must example be
To future rebels, if the unborn
Must learn by my being cut up and torn,
Kill and dissect me, Love; for this
Torture against thine own end is:
Racked carcasses make ill anatomies

John Donne

#2. How many human eyes ... had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

Clive Barker

#3. The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. A traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them.

Don DeLillo

#5. Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Robert A. Burton

#6. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

#7. There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

Michelle Sagara West

#8. Blood isn't everything. Loyalty is everything. And Ravenpaw has been more loyal to me then you could be in a thousand lifetimes.

Erin Hunter

#9. So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

#10. Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

Jon Krakauer

#12. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Henry David Thoreau