Superficial Veins

Famous quotes containing the words superficial and/or veins:

    I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.
    Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

    Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger;
    that, that is freedom—that it is which makes
    the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glow
    Aye, that is freedom,—that is pleasure—life!
    Marie Lovell (1803–1877)