Best Nakedness Sayings
87 Nakedness quotes by 73 unique authors
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we…
— William Wordsworth
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
— John Irving
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
— James A. Baldwin
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There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness…
— Khalil Gibran
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in…
— Thomas Wolfe
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In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
— P.D. James
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He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see…
— Janet Fitch
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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly…
— Louise Glück
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....
— Robert Frost
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and…
— John Piper
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Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
— Margaret Atwood
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The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking…
— Harold Pinter
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No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.
— Suzanne Brockmann
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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of…
— Robert Frost
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Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. "…
— Tessa Dare
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He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally…
— John Berger
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
— Alfred Nobel
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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