Flesh Quotes - Page 40

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

Ellie Goulding

Song, Thinking, Two

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Victor Hugo

Beauty, Art, Dear God

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

Victor Hugo

Eye, Night, World

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Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Caroline Knapp

Anorexia, Cartoon, Hips

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

D. H. Lawrence

Truth, Believe, Intelligent

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Brennan Manning

Hurt, Believe, Soul

Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Bob Marley

Believe, Spirit, Don't Believe

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As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Joyce Meyer

Prayer, Talking, Stronger

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The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Joyce Meyer

Self, Lazy, Human Nature

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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

Aimee Mullins

Issues, People, Amputees

"'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

Novelists, Fiction, Letters

Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.206, Penguin UK

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There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Two, Three

"Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Jerry Saltz

Art, Flesh Eating, Viruses

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Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Jerry Saltz

Italian, Feelings, Looks

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I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

Jill Scott

Cutting, Different, World

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Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

Ellen G. White

Blood, Cake, Pie

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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

Love, Flesh Eating, Vegetarian

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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

Angela Carter

Girl, Wall, Flower

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I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

Sue Monk Kidd

Swimming, Darkness, Curls

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Wise, Wisdom

Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

Marya Hornbacher

Wall, Glasses, Mirrors

Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.14, Harper Collins

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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Ellen Bass

Hope, Grief, Love You

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...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

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The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

Stephane Mallarme

Book, Alas

1887 'Brise marine', in Poe sies, Du Parnasse Contemporain (1893).

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He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

Kim Edwards

Father, Blood, Hands

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