Top 39 Snake Skin Quotes
#1. The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.
John Divola
#2. One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin
only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
Frank Herbert
#3. Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.
Stella Payton
#4. Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
Claire Forlani
#5. Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L'Amour
#6. He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled.
"Mmmm," he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.
Kellie Thacker
#7. The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.
John Edgar Wideman
#9. The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.
Maneka Gandhi
#10. But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.
Thomas Hardy
#11. Like a snake on a rock, I have shed my skin and grown another. I feel reborn and ready to resume activities.
Fennel Hudson
#12. Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it...
Jim Morrison
#13. A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
Franz Grillparzer
#14. They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
Willa Cather
#15. Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
Scott McCloud
#16. Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama Buddha
#17. I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice ... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt
#18. Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Lord Byron
#19. Like a snake, my heart
has shed its skin.
I hold it here in my hand,
full of honey and wounds.
- New Heart
Federico Garcia Lorca
#20. Youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is
Mike Gayle
#21. A snake could shed its skin many times in its life, but it never stopped being a snake.
Marie Hall
#23. This isn't a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It's a circus, a mortuary, a grade school, a limousine ride. Will it be worth the paper it's printed on or the screen you hold in your hand? I just hope you remember it next week.
Chila Woychik
#24. Is this Dornish wine?" Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. "It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.
George R R Martin
#25. If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?
Tony Kushner
#27. The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
#28. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.
Leonardo Donofrio
#30. I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
Van Morrison
#32. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
Isobelle Carmody
#33. I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Khaled Hosseini
#35. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.
Noah Fregger
#37. Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
Joseph Campbell
#38. The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
David Harvey
#39. We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.
Jeet Thayil
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