Flesh Quotes - Page 16

Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

All flesh is not venison.

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!

I’m the same weight now as I’ve always been-even before having children-but I have to say there’s been a redistribution of the flesh!

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

All flesh doth frailty breed!

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.