Emaciated Quotes

A more shocking scene cannot be imagined, than that witnessed by the party of men who went to the relief of the unfortunate emigrants in the California Mountains. The bones of those who had died and been devoured by the miserable ones that still survived were lying around their tents and cabins. Bodies of men, women and children, with half the flesh torn from them, lay on every side. A woman sat by the body of her husband, who had just died, eating out his tongue; the heart she had already taken out, broiled, and eat! The daughter was seen eating the flesh of the father - the mother that of her children - children that of father and mother. The emaciated, wild, and ghastly appearance of the survivors, added to the horror of the scene. Language cannot describe the awful change that a few weeks of dire suffering had wrought in the minds of these wretched and pitiable beings. Those who but one month before would have shuddered and sickened at the thought of eating human flesh, or of killing their companions and relatives to preserve their own lives, now looked upon the opportunity by these acts afforded them of escaping the most dreadful of deaths …

My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

I was very skinny. You know when your knees don't even look like they're attached to your body? Kids at school called me 'Snap,' like my legs were about to snap because they were so thin.

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."