Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a… — Lawrence Durrell
There are two Mustafa Kemals. One the flesh-and-blood Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and who will pass away. The other is you, all… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I… — Suzanne Collins
Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link… — John Milton
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit… — Adam Rex
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine… — Wendell Berry
Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame — — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always,… — Oscar Wilde
I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony… — Charlaine Harris
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh… — Sylvia Plath
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… — Wallace Stevens
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show… — Brennan Manning
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a… — Lady Gaga
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,… — Henry David Thoreau
She was made of flesh and eyelashes. — Leonard Cohen
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to… — Eric Ludy
Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone. — Portia de Rossi
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. — William Shakespeare
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange… — Derrick Jensen
Let the flesh instruct the mind. — Anne Rice
Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how… — Joyce Meyer

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