Flesh Quotes

I fell in love with the boy next door, and my own flesh became a thing I'd never really worn before. Sometimes, pressing my palms together, I thought I felt a magnetic field between them- something invisible but shaped, like sound, or heat, an egg of light, and it was thought I could hold the life force itself in my hands.

~ Laura Kasischke

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

~ Megan Shepherd

Sunny - If you can explain yourself before someone kicks your ass, count your blessings and give some thought to going back to the priesthood.Nick - I would, but now-a-days that vow of chastity might be a problem.

~ J.a. Dennam

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

~ Marie Rutkoski

Dragons are fire made flesh.

~ George R.r. Martin

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

~ Jonathan Darman

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

~ V.c. Andrews

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

~ Anthony Liccione

My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies.

~ W.h.d. Rouse

Meltwater (from the book Blue Bridge)Up here. A faceLoses its linesI look to seeThe colour of your eyes …They have turnedTo water.I lean forwardTo catchThe scent of your hair –All I smell is heather.I touch your handAnd all I feel is earth and stones.There is nothing leftBut the hillside’s breastYour flesh and bonesHave vanished.

~ Jay Woodman

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

~ Dan Wells

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

~ Anthony Liccione

So bloody massacre, so nasty, so brutal he just starts to eat alive people flesh.

~ Deyth Banger

A man who does not know God lives guided by the desires of his flesh.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The ego hates losing – even to God.

~ Richard Rohr

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

~ George Macdonald

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

~ Lorenzo Scupoli

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

~ David Burr Gerrard

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.

~ Julie Kagawa

And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.

~ Bram Stoker