Skin Quotes

And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderful hues..We all make a beauty so wonderfully true.We are special and different, and just the same, too!So whenever you look at your beautiful skin, from your wiggling toes to your giggling grin...Think how lucky you are that the skin you live in, so beautifully holds the You who's within.

~ Michael Tyler

Snow was the most beautiful thing Amitola had ever seen. It fell so gracefully and drizzled her skin like a cold whisper.

~ Aishabella Sheikh

she's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin.

~ Sanober Khan

I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed

~ Gary Lutz

THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALLWhen he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes look out with the blur of eyes which see for all species. He has remembered his own nature from past patterns. Now his heart beats through rock, sky, oceans. He feels the silence and the sound all around the world beneath his skin.We all hold somewhere deep within us the truth we accepted in innocence. The seas, the forests, the soil, the atmosphere, are all vital parts of an ongoing system. By harming any part of it we must ultimately harm ourselves. It is that simple.

~ Jay Woodman

A tattoo does that, it makes you think about your body like it's this special suit that you can put on or take off whenever you want and a new name if it's cool enough does the same thing. To have both at once is power. It's the kind of power as all those superheroes who have secret identities get from being able to change back and forth from one person into another. No matter who you think he is, man, the dude is always somebody else.

~ Russell Banks

Consider my Lover; the yellow churchof his skin, the clean wells of his ears;How the notes of a song come to himlike birds descending on a power line;How in his absence I am of twothroats--each of them cramped.

~ Cecilia Llompart

A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations?

~ Fatema Mernissi

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.

~ Heema Shirvaikar

I live there...Far above the song-filled clouds,where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there.

~ Sanober Khan

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

~ Julio Cortázar

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars.

~ Akshay Vasu

I am skin, but underneath livesfire and stars and wild!

~ Melody Lee

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.

~ Gregory David Roberts

The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.

~ Markus Zusak

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously—a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it.

~ John Steinbeck

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

~ Muhammad Ali

Your mother holds you skin on skin and when you enter this world, feeds you with her own body; skin on skin. Your father runs his fingers over your tear stained cheek, presses his lips to your forehead; skin on skin. You make love, skin on skin with a man you love, a beautiful man. And then, if you’re lucky your own baby will enter this world and you’ll hold her skin on skin, feed her with your body skin on skin. It’s a magical thing.

~ Madeline Sheehan

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

~ John Geddes

I fell in love with the boy next door, and my own flesh became a thing I'd never really worn before. Sometimes, pressing my palms together, I thought I felt a magnetic field between them- something invisible but shaped, like sound, or heat, an egg of light, and it was thought I could hold the life force itself in my hands.

~ Laura Kasischke

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

~ Anaïs Nin

You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.

~ Akshay Vasu

... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.

~ Glenda Millard

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

~ Erich Maria Remarque

I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic.

~ Kattie Belgar

Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free, without her right beside me.

~ Belinda Jeffrey

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

~ Kōbō Abe

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

~ Emma Donoghue

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

~ Francesca Lia Block

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

~ Cynthia Voigt

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.

~ Iain Thomas

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

~ Ellen Hopkins

I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

~ Daniel Zomparelli

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

~ Anaïs Nin

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

~ Barton Gellman

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

~ Minka Kelly