Top 42 Flayed Ones Quotes
#1. I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
Damien Hirst
#2. If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.
Diana Gabaldon
#3. The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.
Terrence Real
#4. There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos
Loreth Anne White
#5. This soldier had been taken prisoner in some remote part of Asia, and was threatened with an immediate agonising death if he did not renounce Christianity and follow Islam. He refused to deny his faith, and was tortured, flayed alive, and died, praising and glorifying Christ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. All right, kids. We're going to a party where they don't like us very much. Everyone know what they're doing? (Sin)
Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.
Matt Groening
#8. Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Richard House
#9. Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off
Mikhail Bulgakov
#10. I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B.B. King
#11. a flayed body untangled
string by string and hung
to the wall, an agonized banner
displayed for the same reason
flags are.
Margaret Atwood
#12. The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
Kate Bosworth
#13. We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.
Nolan Bushnell
#14. Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
Mary Stewart
#15. But I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by light rain of guts and flayed skin.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. inch of her body was in agony. She felt like she had been flayed, and she looked like she had been
Jarred Martin
#17. The arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.
Biloine W. Young
#18. Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
Dossie Easton
#19. Trust you?' said Damen. 'You flayed the skin from my back. I have seen you do nothing but cheat and lie to every person you've encountered. You use anything and anyone to further your own ends. You are the last person I would ever trust.'
[ ... ]
'Go, then.
C.S. Pacat
#20. Barriers are continually being made out of ... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation ...
Wassily Kandinsky
#21. I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet
#22. Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
William Cowper
#23. It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
Susan Sontag
#24. That last gallop had flayed her raw skin to shreds. "Saddle sores. Trivial hurts, for all that they are mine." His brows rose. "What do you call severe, then?" She staggered away past the beheaded commander. "That.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#25. Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
Artur Davis
#26. My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.
Charlotte Bronte
#27. Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.
Terry Pratchett
#28. It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
Thom Yorke
#29. I can't imagine that I'm supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, leaving me in flayed pieces and on the other side of something only in a temporal sense.
Lionel Shriver
#30. Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
Victoria Chang
#31. What's the old saying? Ah, I remember now. 'Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.' That's the one.
Simon Holt
#32. Not until you finally try to put down the stuff do you realize, with stinging clarity, precisely why you picked it up in the first place. All life, in this freshly nerve-flayed state, boils down to a choice of hells. The hell of being fucked-up on drugs or the hell of being fucked-up without them.
Jerry Stahl
#33. to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe.
Suanne Laqueur
#34. Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
Jonathan Swift
#35. Tell me something,boys. Do you wear that leather to turn each other on? I mean, is it a dick thing with you all?
J.R. Ward
#37. This was not Mr. Sears talking, not really; this was the voice of what the flask flayed raw and bloody inside his soul, what it stomped and kicked and tortured until the voice had to scream for release.
Robert McCammon
#38. When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave.
Cormac McCarthy
#39. Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.
Khushwant Singh
#40. You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
S.T. Joshi
#41. Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left out for the tanner.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#42. I remembered watching Slim Goodbody on TV, an odd white guy with a small Afro who wore a full-body leotard with the inside of the human body painted on it, which made him look as if he'd been flayed alive. He
Jenny Lawson
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