Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
— Margaret Atwood
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All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out…
— Sarah McLachlan
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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be…
— L. Frank Baum
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God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies…
— Anthony Burgess
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Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated…
— Tim LaHaye
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Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands…
— Janet Fitch
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of…
— Michael Pollan
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
— Guy de Maupassant
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O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms,…
— William Shakespeare
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Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly respond when I whisper hello Could be my soul…
— Jay Asher
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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
— Juliet Marillier
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I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your…
— Charlotte Bronte
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My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much…
— Herta Muller
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the…
— Henry Rollins
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To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing…
— Georges Bataille
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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,…
— Gaston Leroux
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The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This…
— Hilary Mantel
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
— Brennan Manning
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Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
— Tupac Shakur
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A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
— Frank Herbert
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