Onion Layer Quotes

#1. It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Patty Duke

#2. Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#3. She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach her about domestic deepenings, the modest reliable thrill of the familiar, which as almost everyone but Liz knows has been the way of human happiness since humanity was born.

Michael Cunningham

#4. Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#5. Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

#6. We were a good team. I was glad we had decided to work on being friends. She was holding up her end of the bargain and I was trying my best not to worship her.

Emmy Laybourne

#7. Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.

Francis Fukuyama

#8. It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Arthur Golden

#9. Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

James Huneker

#10. They called it the bamboo-shoot existence, the onion life, every layer you peeled away made you cry more, and even if you could find the food you couldn't get it home because dysentery was breeding in the street mud and you might trail it back to your family.

Anonymous

#11. Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

Kristen Heitzmann

#12. Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.

Peter Menzel

#13. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#14. He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing.

Stephen King

#15. Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

Myles Munroe

#16. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Warren G. Bennis

#17. Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

Michael A. Arnzen

#18. Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Juliette Binoche

#19. Olivia had always believed in a compassionate society. But was compassion only the first layer of the onion skin? Peel it away, and what do you see? How do you become compassionate when you have nothing to give?

Vinay Kolhatkar

#20. the very best plans were made like an onion, with layer upon layer protecting the heart.

S.J.A. Turney

#21. When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.

William Arnot

#22. For me, the dying part wasn't so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn't through living.

Suzannah Daniels

#23. To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

Tamar Myers

#24. If we expect all men to have six-packs and biceps, we can't get mad when they expect us to be stick-figures with DD boobs.

Holly Bourne

#25. Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core.

Afnan Ahmad Mia

#26. It's my personal onion theory. See, it's like we've all got layers on layers, going deep inside, to layer ten, that place where we're spiritual and private. But we don't show those deep layers.

Dandi Daley Mackall

#27. Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

Augusten Burroughs