Quotes with flesh

  • There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
  • Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
  • Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
  • Disillusioned words like bullets bark 
 As human gods aim for their marks. 
 Make everything from toy guns that spark 
 To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark. 
 It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
  • England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart and England is not of her flesh and body. But Europe is solid with herself.
  • I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
  • My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
  • Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Sydney Smith Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Marcus Aurelius A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • E. M. Cioran Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anais Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • John Maynard Keynes England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart and England is not of her flesh and body. But Europe is solid with herself.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Ralph Ellison I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
    Ralph Ellison
    American writer and essayist (1914 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Hardy I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Adam Jones I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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