Bowels

Famous quotes containing the word bowels:

“All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: “This is the end.” Because it would have been.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.”
—Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)