Flesh Quotes - Page 26

• I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

  Stevie Smith

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

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• The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Soul, May, Torture

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

  Rae Foley

  Money, People, Who Cares

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• Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

  John Ford

  Men, Clothes, Physicians

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.66, Manchester University Press

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• [On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Movie, Gentleman, Farmers

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• Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Spiritual, Race, Sensual

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.189

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• Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

  Simon Hoggart

  Dream, Blood, Liberty

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

  Olive Schreiner

  Men, Doe, Cost

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

  Jane Roberts

  Spiritual, Soul, Body

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.166, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Wise, Dream, Children

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• Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Pregnancy, Moving, Movement

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Blood, Voice, Knowing

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• it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.

  Patti Davis

  Eye, Dying, Age

  Patti Davis (2011). “The Long Goodbye”, p.30, Knopf

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• The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Cells, Water

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• ... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Memories, Past, People

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• For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Soul, Doubt, Feels

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

  Sigrid Undset

  Flames, Temptation, Lust

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• 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.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Two, Limits

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.3126, Library of Alexandria

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• The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

  John Owen

  Kings, Communication, Eye

  John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

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• Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

  Anna Thomas

  Food, Animal, Needs

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Confidence, Healing, Butterfly

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• Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Special, Legacy, World

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  I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we're meant to interact with them, and it's our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we're meant to.

  Megan Fox

  Jobs, Believe, Fate

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• O most illustrious of the days of time!
  Day full of joy and benison to earth
  When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
  With dazzling pomp descending angels sung
  Good will and peace to men, to God due praise,
  Who on the errand of salvation sent
  Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity
  Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.

  Abraham Coles

  Christmas, Sweet, Angel

  Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

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