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"I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does."
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"Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?"
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"Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all."
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"How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?"
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"I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before."
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"I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does."
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"My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . ."
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"Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody."
Judgment


"John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on."
Poetry


"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking."
Wisdom


"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
Silence


"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness."
Art


"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education


"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
Expression


"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
Mortality


"I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something."
Humor


"You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
Life
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