Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
— Robin Hobb
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I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid…
— Markus Zusak
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ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not…
— William Shakespeare
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Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement…
— Gayle Forman
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Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.…
— Truman Capote
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Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I…
— Mark Epstein
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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass…
— James Joyce
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose…
— Ted Dekker
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My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't…
— Libba Bray
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Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely…
— Seamus Heaney
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers,…
— Jules Verne
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death…
— Ben Jonson
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Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have…
— Nick JoaquÃn
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So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still…
— Diana Gabaldon
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When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would…
— William Faulkner
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He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the…
— Kevin Hearne
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Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless…
— Moderata Fonte
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a…
— Kim Harrison
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Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as…
— Annette Curtis Klause
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