Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal…
— G I Gurdjieff
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)
— Steven Erikson
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I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around…
— Richelle Mead
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Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
— R.L. LaFevers
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I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I…
— Aleister Crowley
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The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?" He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your…
— Richelle Mead
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The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep.…
— Darynda Jones
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I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be…
— Walt Whitman
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Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and…
— Isaac Marion
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I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in…
— Antonin Artaud
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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But…
— Diana Gabaldon
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine!…
— Gustave Flaubert
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions…
— MacDonald Harris
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It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow…
— MacDonald Harris
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You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt…
— Lucy Christopher
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
— Mos Def
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But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind…
— Laini Taylor
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I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a…
— David Levithan
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