Marrow Quotes

• Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Plutarch
  • Books
  • Intimacy
  • Consult

• To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Acting
  • Kings
  • Beggar

• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Petrarch
  • Books
  • Delight
  • Bones

• I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Burn
  • Plague
  • Anointed City

• I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Bones
  • Marrow

• I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Knows
  • Bones
  • Marrow

• Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Absence
  • Bones
  • Marrow