Best skins & snakes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“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.”

Grows Accepting Skins Casts Limitation Agony Snakes

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“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.”

Capitalism Capacity Skins Beast Colour Peculiar Shed Snakes Chameleon

Author:David Harvey

“A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.”

Looks Persons Different Animal Skins Transformation Snakes Falseness

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”

Dies Skins Casts Snakes

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“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.”

Looks Whole Process Behinds Skins Leaving Snakes Edifice Joyce

Author:Frank McCourt

“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.”

Turns Mistake Illusion Skins Casts Snakes Hue

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“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.”

Objects Skins Photograph Shed Snakes

Author:John Divola

“My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because my old act was all about "Where's the party after this?" I was humping the stool and it's all so disgusting and I was miserable, miserable in a lifeless angry marriage. Then I met my wife and I was completely happy. Like a snake that sheds its skin. I just got rid of all of that negativity.”

Years Firsts Two Different Party Wife Mets Skins Angry My Wife Miserable Two Years Disgusting Shed Negativity Snakes Lifeless Stools

Author:Jay Mohr

“Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.”

Men States Process Consciousness Higher Skins Passing Passings Shakes Immortal Butterfly Snakes States Of Consciousness Chrysalis

Book:Death and After?

Source: Death and After?

“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.”

Mind Wells Dies Change Opinion Skins Casts Cease Life Changing Snakes

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”

Skins Yesterday Shed Snakes

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.”

Ifs Way Looks Beautiful Faces Skins Lovely Snakes Bugs Twisted Rotten Poisonous Lovable Pretty Face

Author:Cassandra Clare

“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”

Way Want Giving Giving Up Skins Who I Am Slips Shed Snakes I Want To Give Up

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.”

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