Flesh Quotes - Page 32

• I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Unity, Saws, Bones

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

  Questlove

  Character, People, Hip Hop

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• I am tired of the litany
  of months, September October
  I am tired of the way the seasons
  keep changing, mimicking
  the seasons of the flesh
  which are real and finite.

  Linda Pastan

  Real, Tired, Mimicking

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• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

  Robert South

  Opportunity, Men, Names

  Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.431

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• Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

  Paul David Tripp

  Law, Ideas, Needs

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• Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

  Lactantius

  Church, Penance, Care

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• The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Passion, Heart, Recovery

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• Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Self, Cities

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• In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Exercise, Men, Air

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hands, Worry, Design

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• What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

  Ellen G. White

  Sweet, Eye, Heart

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

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• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

  N.D. Wilson

  Stories, Catechism, Impulse

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• But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

  Helen Waddell

  Mind, Desire

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Humor

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• I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Religious, Real, Blood

  "Any answers?". Interview with Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Heart, Law, Guilt

  Gilles Deleuze (2008). “Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  Barbara Block

  Sharks, People, Want

  "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Heart, Giving, Stones

  "Fictional character: Thomas Cromwell". "Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2012.

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• We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Consciousness, Bones, Strive

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

  Richard Lewontin

  Law, Facts, Biology

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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