Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife…
— Alan Paton
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In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the…
— Sarah Dessen
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I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the…
— Clive Barker
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That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only…
— Khalil Gibran
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My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
— Sylvia Plath
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How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
— Isaac Marion
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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.
— Clive Barker
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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
— Friedrich Schiller
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But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
— Robert Kirkman
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The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the…
— Saul Bellow
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Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars…
— Anna Godbersen
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
— Ellen Hopkins
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He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no…
— Kami Garcia
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Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,
— Cassandra Clare
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Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded…
— Haruki Murakami
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There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
— Alan Moore
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They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried," Galladon said. "Fortunately.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then…
— Lora Leigh
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That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the…
— Neil Gaiman
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No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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