Flesh Quotes - Page 23

• For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

  John Milton

  Sex, Essence, Enmity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Together, Lasts

  Samuel Beckett (1964). “How it is”, p.140, Grove Press

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• Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Teacher, Struggle, Eye

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• The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dark, Light, Black

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• The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Mother, Book, Twilight

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• The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Peculiar, Extravagance, Coins

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

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• We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

  Jack Gilbert

  Moon, Wind, Whispering

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• London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Labyrinth, Half, Stones

  Peter Ackroyd (2000). “London: The Biography”, Doubleday

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• Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Effort, Anxiety

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Devil

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Car, People

  India Together, July 2000.

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• 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'.

  Edna Ferber

  Sae, Cry, Cases

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• 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.

  Theodore Roethke

  Mean, Order, Broken

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.73, Anchor

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• 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.

  Maimonides

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Thinking Of You, Pain, Loneliness

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• How can kindliness rule that man
  Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?

  Thiruvalluvar

  Increase, Kindliness

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• 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.

  Yukio Mishima

  Wall, Eye, Men

  "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima translated by Michael Gallagher, 1973.

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• Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Strong, Grace

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.51, Baker Books

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• We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.

  Ellen G. White

  Country, Nuts, People

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.1165, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.

  Warren Farrell

  Responsibility, Men, Rights

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.

  Arthur Symons

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

  James F. Cooper

  Hunting, Animal, Squirrels

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

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