Flesh Quotes - Page 30

• The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Looks, Body

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• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Scientist, Establishment

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• Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

  Paul the Apostle

  Dog, Evil, Danger

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• I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational - an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Past, Vegetarianism, Progress

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.

  Anna Brackett

  Pain, Struggle, Cutting

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• Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

  Walter Raleigh

  Heaven, Joy, Soul

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• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Friends, Real, Eye

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• The last faint spark
  In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
  dark,
  The wounds of the baited bear,--
  The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
  On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Dark, Self

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Thee

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Father, Son, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4816, Delphi Classics

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Confused, Lying

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.398

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• We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

  Margaret of Valois

  Bones, Virtue, Virtuous

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• As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Quality, Complacency

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• All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us").

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Father

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.75, Penguin

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• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  William H. Gass

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

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• Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Cutting, Dust, Woods

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• All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

  Jeanette Lee

  Greatness, Trying, Littles

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• Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Vegetarianism

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Vegetarianism, Flesh Eating, Cannibalism

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• I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Beach, Swimming, Bones

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• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

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• Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

  Barbara Mertz

  People, Loving Someone, Disease

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Ease

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