Flesh Quotes

• His flesh took paleness from his bones.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Bones
  • Flesh

• When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Eye
  • Spirit
  • Flesh

• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bed
  • Coward
  • Hills

• Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Men
  • Two
  • Flesh

• 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
  • Country
  • Creature
  • Pigs

• Gator lifted the needle and dabbed at the decorated flesh, frowning. The cases on the Mimosa generally had terrible skin, but they were docile enough to make a good filing system, considering you could usually find them where you left them – they didn’t move around much on their own, and unlike other kinds of hardcopy, they seldom got stolen.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Good
  • System
  • Skin

• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  

  William Blake
  • Desire
  • Flesh
  • Burning Boy

• 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
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Minds

• I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Paid
  • Flesh
  • Audiences

• Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Life
  • Reproduce
  • Sneeze

• Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Eyes
  • Ironic
  • Hilltop

• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

  

  John Calvin
  • Spirit
  • Flesh
  • Regeneration

• I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Good
  • Why
  • She

• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Stars
  • Shakes

• Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Blood
  • Bread
  • Dear

• Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

  

  John Milton
  • Lose
  • State
  • Flesh

• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Stories
  • Flesh
  • Catechism

• Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hands
  • Flesh
  • Holy Eucharist

• When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

  

  James Houston
  • Food
  • Died
  • Flesh

• Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

  

  Nick Joaquín
  • Moment
  • Identity
  • Flesh

• But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Spirit
  • Wind
  • Shadow

• God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus

• God himself took this human flesh upon him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Humans
  • Flesh

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