Best skins & flesh Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.”

Mind Littles Skins Regard Blessed Saint Flesh Mastery Deceived Eyelids

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.”

Shows Young Girl Horror Skins Flesh Meat Why Not Circulation

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life”

Cutting Skins Bones Flesh

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.”

Red Skins Blue Green Shining Flesh Charm Brown Yellow Violet Voluptuous

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.”

People Littles Past Memories Too Much Grew Skins Died Heavy Flesh Sheer Misunderstood Accumulation Withered Experiences And Memories

Author:Dorothy Gilman

“For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.”

Heart May Soul Whole Body Goodness Waste Skins Bones Flesh Goodness Of God Homely Soul And Body

Author:Juliana Berners

“... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.”

Men Life Body Blood Skins Bones Flesh Rebel Maggots

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“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.”

Knows Self Body Eye Running Failing Hair Arms Skins Mirrors Aging Surface Flesh Fats Spots Necks Pens Gray Weary Exhausted Veins Rope Sleeves Wrinkles Liver Hush Notches Freckles Cornered

Author:William H. Gass

“Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.”

Violence Blood Skins Flesh Naked Skeletons

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.”

World My Own Skins Flesh Declaration

Book:The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)

Source: The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)

“The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.”

Thinking Has Beens I Can Body Hands Lines Sin Written Blood Feet Pride Skins Greed Flesh Lust Ran Pens Crowns Nails Autobiography Ink Purple Thorns Avarice Rags I Can Read Crown Of Thorns

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.”

People Eye Age Faces Left Growth Can Do Mouths Skins Madness Mark Cameras Disappointment Ugly Flesh Horrible Necks Sickness Anxious Fearful Alcoholism Wrinkles Horrible Things Irreversible

Author:Janet Malcolm

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”

“Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.”

Thinking Want Needs Long Ideas Shows Hands Spirit Girl Evil Blood Please Beats Angel Skins Ears Bones Flesh Demon Desperate Chests Zombie Craving Flesh And Blood Evil Spirits Skin And Bones

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.”

Feels Should Happiness Moving Knowing Depends Skins Delight Bones Strikes Flesh Heat Sanity Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei”

Way Sometimes Remember Mother Skins Bones Flesh Scar

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.”

Hard Night Brain Imagine Doors Skins Blue Lips Fishes Flesh Breasts Slips Tails Belly Curtains Spine Silk Ribs Fingertips Nudge Brushing Tumors Bowels Ripening Small Fish

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”

Thinking Knows Feels Humans Human Beings Emotion Clear Blood Hair Happenings Skins Greed Flesh Horrible Characteristics Mask Sanity Slips Disgusting Verge Psycho Frenzy Bloodlust

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

Light Would Be Eye Sea Skins Blue Green Shining Fishes Currents Flesh Tiny Thick Shells Merry Exotic Mermaid Underwater Fingernails Seaweed Jade Shining Through

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”

Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark

“How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.”

Way Sometimes Pain Remember Young Mother My Own Forget Saws Honor Daughter Skins Bones Flesh Scar True Nature

Author:Amy Tan

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!”

Life Pain Fighting Winning Forget Pride Losing Concerned Skins Lays Bones Flesh Opponents Martial Arts Escaping Winning And Losing Fracture

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.”

Way Hands Pain Hurt Alive Skins Flesh Burning Knees Covered It Hurts

Author:Herta Muller

“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.”

Ifs Feels Long Body Pain Fall Vision Rocks Skins Breaths Bones Flesh Shoulders Intense Sensations Lungs Crushed Blur Lurking Intense Pain

Author:Kami Garcia

“With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face. All he had was a skull for a head.”

Eye Faces Gone Skins Flesh Skulls Sunglasses Scarves

Book:Skulduggery Pleasant:

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:

“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.”

Ifs Faces Girl Black Cutting Hair Rain Window Skins Tables Wings Flesh Sat Cheeks Smooth Coins Crow Cafes

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.”

Want Skins Ugly Flesh Naked Awkward Absurdity Skeletons

Author:Isaac Marion

“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”

Men World Way May Matter Reason Beautiful Young Flower Perfection Skins Hunger Ugly Flesh Fats Reason Why Convince Fabric Feathers Shantaram Thighs Velvet

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right

“You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt like I was using every muscle in my face. But I did it. I saw you from upside down, your lips above my eyes and your eyes above my lips. "Talk to me," you said. My throat felt like it was closing up, as if my skin had swollen, making my throat a lump of solid flesh. I gripped your hand. "Keep watching me, then," you said. "Keep listening.”

Ifs Said Hands Eye Faces Lying Felt Saws Listening Skins Moved Lips Flesh Muscles Throat Lap Closing Upside Down Talk To Me Lumps Stay With Me Swollen Closing Up

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.”

Water Yoga Skins Bones Flesh

Author:Dharma Mittra

“The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)”

Firsts Two Light Animal Study Evolution Research Skins Organization Flesh Division Peculiar Layers Plastic Germs Turning Points Embryos Discs Membranes

Author:Karl Ernst von Baer

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