Burning Flesh Quotes

#1. It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were sweating profusely causing me to have to wipe them against my jeans under the table. Those last few seconds had felt like a lifetime in pause.

Jennifer L. Brown

#2. She was already in his palace, in his life. He couldn't go back
and wouldn't even if he could. She was so close to him now that it was as if he held her in his palm like a glowing ember
and gave thanks for the pain even as he inhaled the smoke from his burning flesh.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#3. You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

J.D. Salinger

#4. I can smell burning flesh ... and I hope to God it's human.

Steven Morrissey

#5. My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.

Christine Fonseca

#6. I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Charlton Heston

#7. Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies
each with two hundred billion stars
then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

Ron Patterson

#8. Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Raphael

#9. There was the stench of kerosene and burning tires wafting through the air. It was only a matter of time before the rubber smell would be replaced with that of flesh.

Edwidge Danticat

#10. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I

Bram Stoker

#11. Perhaps." The king of Heralds offered no further explanation. "And Taln?" Kalak asked. The flesh burning. The fires. The pain over and over and over ...

Brandon Sanderson

#12. And all the while the burning lime Eats flesh and bone away, It eats the brittle bone by night, And the soft flesh by day, It eats the flesh and bone by turns, But it eats the heart alway.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

William Blake

#15. Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn't love him. Not because he was a beast or white - I couldn't love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn't feel it.

Eduardo C. Corral

#16. Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea.
The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be
free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite
from life?

Thomas Mann

#17. Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.

Eavan Boland

#18. She screamed like a thousand birds were picking at her flesh. She screamed like the palace was burning down around her.

Marissa Meyer

#19. Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Plato

#21. And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Aeschylus

#22. He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell away. Pain was something he had never known before. But even worse than the physical affliction was the knowledge that he would forevermore be denied Heaven.

James Burnham