Quotes about skin

Aniruddha Sastikar -

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.

Sanober Khan -

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

Belinda Jeffrey - One Long Thread

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

Mark Simpson - Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

Sanober Khan -

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Terri Cheney - Manic: A Memoir

[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.

Sanober Khan -

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

Sanober Khan - a tempest

our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.

Avijeet Das -

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!And that the inimitable fragrance of your skin is more sublime than that of all the perfumes of this world!

Cherry Adair - Hush

You skin is so soft. Smells like…”She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. “Sheer, unadulterated fear?

Dominic Riccitello -

I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.

Coco J. Ginger -

I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.

John Mark Green -

Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.

Sreesha Divakaran - Dew

Erupting like fiery autumn leaves between silksas skin meets skinflames that lick everythingand consume all there is.

J.D. Stroube - Caged in Darkness

My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing bolder, it tore through my skin to lay flat against my outer edge. The glowing energy began to solidify against my flesh; it lengthened to mold itself to my frame and contained me in a transparent cocoon. I flexed my fingers against the waxy surface and began to panic. I was cut off from my coven now and could not feel their thoughts. I could see the panic on their faces as I fell onto my side to

Ayn Rand -

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

N.R. Walker - Book One

My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

Lisa Bedrick - On Christian Hot Topics

I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqué too, but she was pretty much always known as a "bad girl." Mariah was a good girl, supposedly Christian, turning very bad, in the late 90's. So then, all the other little girls and teens and women across America thought it would be ok for them to "come out" too essentially, or flaunt whatever they had. Modesty went completely out the window for many women, starting in the late 9

Deyth Banger - The Life of One Kid 1

I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new will be more okay than that... to much honesty... I am not on this... After all if you don't know this fact, I am going to point it to you... Marriage is successful if it's build on a lie...

Steve Moore - V for Vendetta

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

Jaclyn Moriarty - The Ghosts of Ashbury High

I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as watermelon rind, veined blue from cold. There's that 'H' shape behind her knees. The H trembles softly with the swimming-water cold.

Jana Elston -

IT'S NEVER TOO LATEIt's never too late to look after yourself. Never too late to eat healthily, get plenty of rest, exercise regularly and look after your skin. You'd be amazed at how quickly your skin and body can rejuvenate given the right environment.

Jana Elston -

Those who say they don't have the time to take care of their skin, will sooner or later have to find the time for corrective treatments.

Jana Elston -

Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results of how it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.

Jana Elston -

Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results ofhow it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.

John Mark Green -

I want to hold you close, skin on skin, and let our heartbeats have a conversation.

Carew Papritz - his Final Gift

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.

Himanshu Chhabra -

She wore her scars, and looked as best as she could. He made her comfortable and removed them one by one. She stood bare in front of him. He kissed her naked soul and tattooed a promise on her skin

N.R. Walker - Book One

Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside.

V. Vale - Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

While they all ink their skin,I crave something permanent within.Bare your soulOpen your heartTattoo your love within.

Akshay Vasu -

Holding you in my arms always feels like holding a musical instrument that I love the most, moving my fingers on your skin feels like playing it. And my soul closes its eyes and starts singing along with the music I start creating.

Akshay Vasu -

Every touch of you on my skin has burnt and etched your name on my soul. Whenever I close my eyes and try to feel myself, all I can hear is constant echoes of your name in my head, and all I can feel is the constant longing for the darkness.

Akshay Vasu -

Love is when you start denying all the definitions it was given before and you start finding your own. It is when the other person craves to see your bare soul more than your bare skin. It is something that happens between souls, where the touch of their fingers on your skin lits fire to your soul and destroys you in the most beautiful way possible and makes you end up craving to be destroyed even more.

Akshay Vasu -

Time is a lie. Each second, when I am not with you, seems like an eternity and every moment when your breath touches my skin, which makes each bit of my soul crave for you feels the same too. Each hour when I am with you seems like a second and when I am inside your arms, even eternity feels the same too.

AVA. - you are safe here.

you have outgrown this skin.stop trying to hold it in.stop trying to hold it together.let yourself break.

Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Kōbō Abe -

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.

Kattie Belgar - Dreaming is for lovers

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.

Belinda Jeffrey - One Long Thread

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.

Erich Maria Remarque - The Night in Lisbon

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

Madeline Sheehan - Undeniable

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.

John Geddes -

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

Laura Kasischke - White Bird in a Blizzard

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.

Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus

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

Glenda Millard - A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

... 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.

Akshay Vasu -

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some people aren’t really light-teethed they’re merely dark-skinned.

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

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

Carrie Brownstein -

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

Becki Newton -

I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

Barton Gellman -

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.

Minka Kelly -

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

Anaïs Nin -

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

Virginia Woolf -

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Tyra Banks -

Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.

Joel Edgerton -

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Konrad Adenauer -

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Patricia Clarkson -

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Iman -

Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow -

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Thomas Overbury -

Beauty is only skin deep.

Tyra Banks -

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.

Phyllis Diller -

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Shah Rukh Khan -

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Tiberius -

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Iain Thomas -

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

Cynthia Voigt - When She Hollers

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

Emma Donoghue - Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Francesca Lia Block - Wasteland

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

Joel Kinnaman -

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

Sylvia Plath -

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

Mark Twain -

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Daniel Zomparelli - Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

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.

Ellen Hopkins - Burned

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

Akshay Vasu -

We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin.

Michael Tyler - The Skin You Live In

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.

Aishabella Sheikh - Jungle Princess

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

Russell Banks -

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.

Sanober Khan - A Thousand Flamingos

she's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

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.

Cecilia Llompart - The Wingless

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.

Gary Lutz -

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

Jay Woodman - SPAN

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,

Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch

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.

Sanober Khan - a tempest

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

Heema Shirvaikar -

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.

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage

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.

Fatema Mernissi -

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?

Akshay Vasu -

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

Molly Friedenfeld -

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.

John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent

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.

Muhammad Ali - The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

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

Markus Zusak - Underdog

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.

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

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

Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram

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.

D.A. Paul - Boost

I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.

Yancy Lael - Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion

If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.