Flesh Quotes - Page 8

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.