Itch Quotes

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere crust on her limbs, anything to get something bright and liquid flowing again, out in the open and slippery between our fingers.”
― Lionel Shriver

“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Got the itch? - Jared”
― Martha Sweeney, Breathe In

“There's nothing worse, than having a scratch you cannot itch.”
― Robert Black

“Itchy fingers scratching keys.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“Why?”. Neurological research shows that merely wondering about an interesting question activates regions of the brain linked to reward-processing. Curiosity—the act of wondering—feels good in and of itself, and thus, questions beget more questions. Think of curiosity as a condition—“like an itch,” says the neuroscientist Charan Ranganath.”
― Warren Berger, The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead

“Sometimes those fleas get to a woman," he told her as his hand warmed her flesh. "She gets an itch that nobody but a man can scratch”
― Pamela Morsi, Garters