74 Quotes About Shells

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.