Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you… — Michael Marshall Smith
His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body.… — Lilith Saintcrow
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made… — Susan Vreeland
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose.… — Ray Bradbury
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love… — Ben Elton
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric,… — Naomi Wolf
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a… — Fulton J. Sheen
The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this… — Tatiana de Rosnay
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with… — Steig Larsson
The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above… — Steven Galloway
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of… — Stephen Colbert
One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head,… — Helen Hollick
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated… — Umberto Eco
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. — Djuna Barnes
the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything! — Leslie Marmon Silko
What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life. — Robin Hobb
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is… — Emily Dickinson
The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly… — Suzanne Collins
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off… — Eoin Colfer
Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us… — Margaret Atwood
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep… — Stevie Smith
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for… — Cormac McCarthy
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power… — Laurie R. King

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