Quotes About Rotting Flesh

#1. War is fought in mystery. The truth can take days to travel, and ahead of truth flies rumor, and it is ever hard to know what is really happening, and the art of it is to pluck the clean bone of fact from the rotting flesh of fear and lies.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

Bryan Adams

#3. He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.

Ted Dekker

#4. Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

Antonin Artaud

#5. It was a peculiar odor, the smell of sexual violation, a mixture of rotting flesh and underarm stench. They shivered even though the heat belowdecks would've suffocated the weak. Our desecrated brothers survived because, as best we could, we reminded them of who they were.

Daniel Black

#6. I see women and children starving to death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh of casualties. I see dead dead dead red and burgundy and maroon and the richest shade of your mother's favorite lipstick all smeared into the earth.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Alex Winter

#8. Because now I am grown so old and neutral....

Jack Kerouac

#9. I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.

Jim Butcher

#10. When I spend the day alone,
I feel as if my flesh is rotting little by little

Haruki Murakami

#11. Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.

Lorna Sage

#12. Once you've gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it's a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it's not around. Or maybe it's just me.

David Burr Gerrard

#13. It is the yearning I sense in you that lures me.

Sylvia Day

#14. It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Esther Perel

#15. What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

David Wong

#16. Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Cassandra Clare

#17. One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Douglas Coupland

#18. People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

Judi Dench

#19. When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

Tess Gerritsen

#20. But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

James Meade

#21. I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Robert Dowling

#22. I can love things just by watching her love them. That is how I know, that I love her.

Christopher Poindexter

#23. Dead grass is awakened by fire,
dead earth is awakened by rain.
One life will give way to another,
the cycle will begin again.

Susan Dennard