Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. — Alan Moore
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears… — Pope John XXIII
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm… — Charles Frazier
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die… — Margaret Atwood
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that… — William P. Young
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without… — Haruki Murakami
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury
I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood. — Rebecca West
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.… — Bret Easton Ellis
Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. — John Milton
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones. — Charles Bukowski
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word — William H. Gass
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… — Barbara Kingsolver
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. — Frank Herbert
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,… — Francesca Lia Block
Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a… — Robert Hass
Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This… — Eddie Vedder
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those… — Michael Pollan
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray

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