74 Quotes About Shells

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

Strength is an empty shell.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.