Flesh Quotes
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
Oscar Wilde -
You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
Pat Benatar
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
Oscar Wilde -
Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Albert Einstein -
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
Lord Byron -
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
Erica Jong -
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo -
The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.
Oswald Chambers
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They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.
Haruki Murakami -
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
Eugene Delacroix -
There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
Ed Parker -
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
He’d run and run until his heart burst into flames. And he would become nothing but ash. No body, no heart, no bone, no flesh—just carbon matter scattering in the wind.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.
Sarah Dessen -
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)
Thomas Aquinas -
We may not preach a crucified Savior without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!
Gabriela Mistral -
Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
Malcolm Muggeridge -
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.
Emily Dickinson
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
William Faulkner -
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William Shakespeare -
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!
Pythagoras -
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
William Cowper