Flesh Quotes
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The flesh is at the heart of the world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Allen Tate
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THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera -
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
William Shakespeare -
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
T. S. Eliot -
And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.
Sarah MacLean -
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.
Marge Piercy -
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
Alice Cooper
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
Saint Augustine -
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
Ha Jin -
His flesh took paleness from his bones.
Ray Bradbury -
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
Umberto Eco -
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
Willem de Kooning -
What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
Gail Godwin
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The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.
Rabbi Hillel -
When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
Willa Cather -
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
Thomas Hardy -
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
Colleen McCullough -
Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
Robin LaFevers -
The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.
Virchand Gandhi
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Saul Bellow -
If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?
Claude Cahun -
The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.
Faxian