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Quotes About Husks

Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself, and when the husks are discarded, they lie on the road and rot and disappear. Actions are what lie inside, like the bean.
~ David Bergen
Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.
~ Stephen King
Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.
~ Gerard de Nerval
We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
~ Oscar Wilde
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
~ William Blake
The stars are threshed, and the soub are threshed from their husks.' WILLIAM BLAKE
~ W.B. Yeats
Fire surrounded them. Fire. Mustafar. Obi-Wan. He used his ever-present anger to burn away the memories, but the charred husks of the past clung to the forefront of his consciousness. Padmé.
~ Paul S. Kemp