Flesh Quotes - page 2

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. (James Russell Lowell)
Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
William Wordsworth
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. View quote
Edward Young
Heat, ma'am' I said '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. View quote
Sydney Smith
We are capitalism made flesh. View quote
Mark Kingwell
The flesh is sorrowful, alas! And I've read all the books. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked? View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. View quote
Albert Einstein
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape. View quote
Pliny the Elder
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. View quote
Amy Levy
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
This is the tragedy: 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. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, By pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. View quote
Theodore Roethke
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species. View quote
Maimonides
She was made of flesh and eyelashes. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. View quote
Umberto Eco
I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate. (Yves Klein)
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. View quote
Lucian Freud
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. View quote
Lucian Freud
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me. View quote
Mark Rothko
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! View quote
Bruce Lee