(23 quotes found)
“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness”
Cesare Pavese
“I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.”
Otto von Bismarck
“Modesty died when clothes were born.”
Mark Twain
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
William Blake
“We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins”
George Bernard Shaw
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.”
Bible
“And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: / And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.”
“Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.”
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”
“None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.”
