“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.” WritingMeanTreeBearsDiseaseFleshMonstersGoldenParadiseApplesFlashFloodEarthquakesVolcanoesRottingBacteriaCactusQuicksandApple TreesScorpionsRattlesnakesDisease And DeathTarantulasSandstormsFlash Floods Author:Edward Abbey
“Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.” MayTearsMembersDiseaseDirectIllnessFleshScore Book:Last Wish Source: Last Wish
“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.” LooksMatterBodyEyeAgeAsksGrowsDyingDiseaseFleshSurrenderOld AgeExhausted Book:The Long Goodbye Source: The Long Goodbye
“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.” PeopleDiseaseConsciousLifetimeBonesFleshBillionsHorribleVulnerableVulnerabilityFragileLoving SomeoneBreedingGermsBundles Author:Barbara Mertz
“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.” GovernmentBeautifulFallRoomsDiseaseFleshWeed Book:Minutes to Go Source: Minutes to Go
“It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and “the righteous shall hardly escape.” …So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “judge not, lest ye be judged.” Has BeensSaidIdeasSufferingPrinciplesSubjectsJudgingDiseaseJudgmentSaintFleshWickedSaviorJudgedRighteous Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.