“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.” DoeRealPainInterestPleasureViewsEnvironmentShapesAreasBreathsBonesPoint Of ViewFleshVulnerabilityAbstractionReservations Author:Mark Rothko
“We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.” WellsHeartSoulMomentsCareDesirePassionStrongFeltFateMysteryDisciplineKissingFemaleBreathsWinePreparedLifetimeWarmFleshMy SoulPossessedVowDrankFervorHeart Felt Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.” HeartLeftMy HeartMouthsBreathsFleshPoundsFrightened Author:Sarah McLachlan
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” WorldLooksEyeLastsStarsDoorsThis WorldArmsKissingBreathsEmbraceLipsFleshShakesRighteousEverlastingBargainsSealsJulietYokeRomeo And Juliet PlayNew MoonRomeo JulietRomeo And Juliet JulietRomeo And Juliet Romeo Author:William Shakespeare
“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.” IfsMenYearsMadeStillsTwoEyeDogEvolutionRedBreathsGreenDistanceTerrorFleshTeethDespiteMealsOwnersWildernessYellowStinkGleamNuisancePokeFlickerCampfire Author:Neil Gaiman
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.” ThinkingYearsHeartPersonsStillsPainLyingNextBloodHairBedYears AgoBreathsBlueRoundsBetrayalFleshTiedAcheShamefulFingertips Author:Carolyn Parkhurst
“I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.” FeelsWishPrayerGriefHolyBreathsDareComplainingFleshWoundsTheeDiscontentScarceWeariness Book:The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques, &c. Epigrams. Underwoods Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques, &c. Epigrams. Underwoods
“He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.” IfsFeelsLongBodyPainFallVisionRocksSkinsBreathsBonesFleshShouldersIntenseSensationsLungsCrushedBlurLurkingIntense Pain Author:Kami Garcia
“She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.” FeelsMeanChildrenMadeSaidLyingCertainLeftImagineOne ThingQuietWeakBreathsStrangerFleshOpeningBreathingVulnerabilityTouchingSubmissionLeft AloneCloseness Author:Laini Taylor
“I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.” KnowsNeedsHeartI CanHelpingStoriesSimplePayKnow HowHappenedReturnProtectClothesBeatsBreathsForgottenPatternsBonesBreatheFleshFoolishDiscipleEarnestAnecdotesMake Me Smile Author:Colm Toibin
“Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.” MenWantLoveNeedsHeartSaidNightWaitingBloodLonelinessBreathsWarmFleshFlesh And Blood Author:Janet Morris
“The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.” PeopleGivingMindHas BeensFormFantasyPlanetsBreathsFleshSubstanceBrighter Author:Lord Byron