Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between… — Orson Scott Card
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… — Thomas Hardy
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of… — Anne Michaels
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently,… — Tim Burton
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and… — Terry Tempest Williams
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean… — Jack Kerouac
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body… — Barbara Kingsolver
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though… — Bret Easton Ellis
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and… — Bob Marley
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds,… — Tom Robbins
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying… — Mary Roach
I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into… — Henry Miller
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's… — Hermann Hesse
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh… — William Wordsworth
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real… — Mark Twain

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