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As if this flesh which walls about our life.

As if this flesh which walls about our life.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, life

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death, mind

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Quote by Mel Gibson about love, character, people, contentment

Brando, any of those are like a backbone on which you can...

Brando, any of those are like a backbone on which you can build a skeleton and put flesh and blood in.

Quote by Peter Fonda about blood, contentment

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Quote by Saint Ignatius about suffering, pain

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like...

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Quote by Theodore Parker about human imperfections, wealth, fire, fire brigade, heart

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

Quote by John Dos Passos about man, society, order

The robot is going to lose, not by much, but when the...

The robot is going to lose, not by much, but when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Quote by Adam Smith about blood

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Quote by Leonard Cohen about opinion, word, children, use

True happiness consists in intellectual things, not in...

True happiness consists in intellectual things, not in those of the flesh.

Quote by Emily Dickinson about culture, happiness, things

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.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about quiet, fiction, happiness, work, love

Trapped in our own body, we evaluate our own destiny in the light of freedom that we are intermittently assuming, with destroyed cells, with ulcerated flesh by incurable diseases, with decrepit smiles and incoherent kisses. Dissertation on...

Quote by Iulian Boldea about destiny, kiss, body, light

The architecture of body, with cryptic meanings written in flesh, lymph and blood, in a cloister area of daily doubts and uncertain confessions. Dissertation on body, 2010 RightWords Translation

Quote by Iulian Boldea about body, architecture, blood

I am human, layers of flesh upon bone. I am mortal, this...

I am human, layers of flesh upon bone. I am mortal, this breathing temple is my home.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about people, home, human imperfections

A reporter is a man who had renounced everything in life...

A reporter is a man who had renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the devil.

DQuote by David Murray about press, devil, world, man, life

Other than the womb through which your thought and heart flow, in the restlessness of the flesh – you will have no more!

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about heart

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