What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.
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.
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
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.
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!!
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc. , as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises. 'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified by the laws of men - by the laws of men. Oh, true they have found me guilty, But through - through Jah proved my innocency.
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.
The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Miracle woman. . . Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.
