Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, the ship expelled the limp corpse of Zallin. Where it had found a live man in a suit, it left a dead youth in shorts and a tattered shirt, tumbling and freezing while a thin shell of air molecules expanded around the body, like an image of departing life.
Iain BanksMots clés life death space vacuum clear-air-turbulence shell zallin
Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?
Mary BaloghHe had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.
Amy LichtenhanMots clés sadness sad mirror unhappy shell
The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.
Israelmore AyivorMots clés success passion dream action dare food-for-thought birds open you-can-do-it break fly succeed shell can-do-spirit dare-to-win die-for-it live-for-it success-principle
A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being.
Gaston BachelardMots clés life silence introspection introversion hiding shell phil
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