Quotes About Flesh

The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh.

I like something to suddenly appear that didn't seem to be there. I like to be surprised in the area of flesh. I don't necessarily like to be surprised in the area of brain, although I must say this girl did interest me that way. At one point she said something like that I should fuck bimbos and have the cigarette with her, which was a funny line. She says some very funny stuff.

What is the lost cry in the heart of the earth? I am wounded. I have taken a wound in my flesh. The lips of it will never come together. Fire has been thrust deep in the wound. My flesh is branded.

He is a rare bird,' the maester said. 'Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men... and like men, not all ravens are alike.

But the melancholy of Worlorn's dying forests had seeped into his flesh, and he saw Gwen through tainted eyes, a doll figure in a suit as faded as despair.

The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.

Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep grey-green of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took.

Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.

They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.

This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

Heat, madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

He deals with my soul: every day he folds the flesh aside and exposes my soul to the light; he has probably seen many souls in the course of his working life; but the care of souls seems to have left no more mark on him than the care of hearts leaves on the surgeon. (p 118)

I don't know how long I lay in the mud. Perhaps a minute, perhaps a day. Time was a court jester, playing tricks on me. Perhaps another lifetime. Maybe I had been reincarnated as an alligator. Or an innocent beetle feeding on my decaying flesh.

I am but a tuning fork of flesh, struck by the hand of the Creator. I am but a servant of destiny, yet I am accountable.

I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, I am only human--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER