Skeletons Quotes

“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. (“Into a new life”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.”
― Tyler Perry Author Don't Make a Black Woman Take of her Earrings

“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“He has a name."
"Oh yeah. Skulduggery isn’t it?" Fletcher responded. "That’s an unusual one. Tell me were you born a skeleton or were your folks just disturbingly hopeful?”
― Derek Landy, The Faceless Ones

“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols

“Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“The thing I hate most about skeletons is you can never tell when they're smiling.”
― Stephen Blackmoore, Dead Things

“It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Go get wood, Nuckal," grumbled the skeleton. "'Pick up those rocks, Nuckal.' 'Stop eating all the donuts, Nuckal.' Orders, orders, orders, that's all I ever hear.”
― Greg Farshtey, Zane, Ninja of Ice

“You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Brave the skeletons, darling.”
― Emma Winters, Equal Parts

“Whoever had designed the skeletons of creatures had even less imagination than whoever had done the outsides. At least the outside-designer had tried a few novelties in the spots, wool and stripes department, but the bone-builder had generally just put a skull on a ribcage, shoved a pelvis in further along, stuck on some arms and legs and had the rest of the day off. Some ribcages were longer, some legs were shorter, some hands became wings, but they all seemed to be based on one design, one size stretched or shrunk to fit all. - Ponder Stibbons”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant

“All schools have their skeletons. St Oswald’s is no exception. Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. But this time, the only recourse we have is to throw open all the closets, light as many bulbs as we can and catch the vermin as it comes out.”
― Joanne Harris, Different Class

“If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.”
― Kayla Krantz, Alive at Sunset

“With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“I glared as I stood over him. "We all have skeletons, Henry Davenport." I flipped my wrist to reveal the symbol of the Wited Rose. "Some more than others.”
― Freedom Matthews, Inherited

“There are skeletons in this earth.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“Skeletons ain't shit, but hoes and tricks”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen

“Medieval paintings often showed a beautiful woman standing next to a skeleton representing death. Perhaps the experts were wrong. Maybe it wasn’t the skeleton but the woman who symbolised death. Beauté du Diable – even before I met her, was I thinking of Zara? If anyone had the devil’s beauty, she did.”
― Mike Hockney, The Millionaires' Death Club

“The glamour settled around him and left a smell like burning dust. Marra saw the outlines of flesh, a shadow of fur, and then Bonedog shook himself and he was a great gray dog with a skull like a battering ram and a blaze of white across his chest. His tail was still a narrow, bony whip but there was fur across it. He had immense jowls and when he looked up at Marra, they all sagged into a gigantic smile.

'Oh, Bonedog,' she said. He licked her hand and she could feel his tongue, not quite substantial but more than it had been.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“And every time I've set out to meet life, I've met and embraced death. I've collected all my skeletons and bones from each of those moments and have stored them inside the closet that I own. The bones that the death wouldn't touch. And I guess now I have enough of them with me to build a bridge to the paradise in which life lives.”
― Akshay Vasu, Reflections in a Shattered Mirror

“Each memory you hold carries its own weight, but some memories become excessively burdensome, too heavy to carry on your shoulders throughout your entire life. Sooner or later, you must release these skeletons in the cupboard, unburden yourself, and move on”
― Shahid Hussain Raja