Flesh Quotations | Page 4

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 flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

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.

Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

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!

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.

Art is science made flesh.

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron)

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin...Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

When you have a show that's called Jessica Jones, if Jessica Jones isn't in a scene the rest of it become almost irrelevant until you earn other character storylines. You've got to flesh out those characters enough that you can travel.

This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram...

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?

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

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

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

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

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: / All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

Scientology always makes me think of that movie V where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.