Torn Flesh Quotes

#1. There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

Narayan Liu

#2. Will you stay?"
She grew still. "Stay?" she asked, her breath warm on his torn flesh. "You mean tonight?"
"I mean forever."
Emma lifted her head to look at him, her eyes filling with tears.
"Duncan?"
He met her gaze evenly. "Stay with me, Emma. He repeated. "Be mine.

D.B. Reynolds

#3. My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?

Marcus Aurelius

#4. The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

Ebenezer Elliott

#5. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.

Richard Selzer

#7. I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.

Witold Gombrowicz

#8. If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

John Stuart Mill

#10. I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

Anna Gunn

#11. Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"
"Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me - "
"I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times - "
"Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand -

J.K. Rowling

#12. Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Lorrie Fair

#13. Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Michael Crichton

#14. Because string theory is such a high-risk venture - unsupported by experiment,

Lee Smolin