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Skull Quotes
Vivid imagery on the mind and mortality.
A skull is both literal bone and a lasting symbol of mortality, and these quotes use it to explore thought, memory, and identity in striking ways. They connect naturally with quotes about Mortality and life's fragile nature.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
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I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.
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When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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- Nov 07, 2020