#flesh

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#books #flesh #i #read #sad

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#believer #blood #dreams #enough #essentially

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#blood #earth #existence #flesh #heads

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#being #body #consciousness #filled #flesh

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#extraordinary #face #flesh #human #human race

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. ↗

— John Owen

#deeds #depends #flesh #life #mortification

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#flesh #go #large #living #permanent

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#approbation #become #caused #completely #cross