quotations about bones
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
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
Thy bones are marrowless.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
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
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