Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash… — Bruce Lee
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked… — Janet Fitch
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart — Jacqueline Carey
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short… — Janet Evanovich
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? — David Foster Wallace
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your… — E E Cummings
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes… — Marilynne Robinson
She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him,… — Jennifer Donnelly
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income… — Walt Whitman
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? — Robin Hobb
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and… — Rob Bell
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still… — Tess Gerritsen
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and… — Dan Brown
When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate… — Markus Zusak
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where… — Ray Bradbury
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. — Angela Carter

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