197 Quotes About Flesh

When I came to see youIt hurt me how thin you had becomeIn the months of addiction & disease& although your particular abyssWas a man & not a drugThe degradation was the sameThe same wasting of the fleshThe same tapped-out well emptiedOf the least leaf of emotionThe same frozen rage

It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

You can always feel the cool whisper of surveillance when the film hits your flesh, the eye of the camera or simply the camera eye . . . faces of passersby, clientele, unpaid extras change completely as soon as they’re no longer observed.

The salacious pictures lost context and daring, turning into contorted masses of flesh. If one couldn't escape a plague of breasts, if they swarmed, they ceased to be erogenous.

Her kimono stood out from her neck,and her back and shoulders were like a white fan spread under it. There was something sad about the full flesh under that white powder. It suggested a woolen cloth,and again it suggested the pelt of some animal.

You must not be worried about your belly but worry about your soul

you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!

Your strawberry-raspberry taste, your flowery flesh,