quotations about bones
Each October I walk into the woods
looking for bones: rabbit skulls,
a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer
with the blood bleached out. What died
in the lush of roses and mint
shines out from the tangle of twigs
that bind it to the place
of its last leaping.
CHARLES RAFFERTY
Where the Glories of April Lead
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
DJUNA BARNES
Nightwood
We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That's the way that lady luck dances
Roll the bones
RUSH
"Roll the Bones"
I will consult the bones! [disperses bones on ground, pauses for a moment, then whispers discreetly] The bones tell me ... nothing.
BOB DOLMAN
Willow
bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh
ADAM
Genesis 2:23
Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
epitaph
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
JACK LONDON
"Confessions", The Road
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones?
JACK KEROUAC
Scattered Poems
But here's a bone for ye to pick.
ROGER L'ESTRANGE
The Observator, 1681
There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards
CECILIA LLOMPART
The Wingless
Look alive
See these bones
What you are now we were once
Just like we are
You will be dust
Just like we are
NADA SURF
"See These Bones"
They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.
DAN WELLS
Fragments
Always had more dogs than bones.
TOM PETTY
"Square One", Highway Companion
I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.
SOSEKI NATSUME
Kokoro
And the bones from one death proved very useful for implementing the death of another.
JAY WOODMAN
Span
The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A Feast for Crows
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him.
TOM ROBBINS
Jitterbug Perfume
The trauma said, "Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones."
ANDREA GIBSON
The Madness Vase