Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
— Johnny Cash
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Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are…
— Joyce Meyer
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Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.
— Joyce Meyer
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
— Plutarch
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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain…
— Charlotte Bronte
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones…
— Doris Lessing
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother,…
— Amy Tan
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His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular…
— Gregory Maguire
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True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some…
— Dorothy Day
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The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life…
— Frank Herbert
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When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and…
— Joseph Fielding Smith
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
— Audre Lorde
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It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw…
— Richard Matheson
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And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own…
— Anne Rice
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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,…
— Ray Bradbury
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul…
— Laura Esquivel
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
— Sylvia Plath
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