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)

“Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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