Quotes About Bodies

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in their skin.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Once a war is underway the process of deceit continues with regard to the troops who return with broken bodies and broken minds, especially when the wars were never justified. Admitting that the wars are senseless and in vain is too much to bear.

Sometimes late at night the hospital emitted thin streams of mist from the cracks along its windows and between the bricks. They took the shapes of spirits freed from bodies. The world was filling with ghosts. We were a haunted country in a haunted world.

But women aren't just bodies! ... boor! they're companions as well! what of their charms, their grace, their twitterings? sure, sure! if suicide appeals to you ...

Answers were temporary; the question was constant. Women knew that better than men, she thought. Maybe it had to do with the way moon took hold of their bodies, pulling the like the tides...In that way women learned that life was a mystery, and that something bigger than they were was in charge.

We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.

Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.

All this was wasted on Alan, whose set work was Hamlet. For a brief moment he pleased his father by saying that at least there was one line he liked. The pleasure was dissipated when Alan explained it was the last line: 'Exeunt, bearing off the bodies….

ALLEGER  (ALLE'GER)   n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The snow fell straight and slow, adding another layer to the drifts and covering roads, trees, bushes, and bodies, the living and the dead as one beneath its veil.

Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,To taste whole joys.

Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?

full nakedness! all my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

Her nausea increased, the dialect had become unfamiliar, the way our wet throats bathed the words in the liquid of saliva was intolerable. A sense of repulsion had invested all the bodies in movement, their bone structure, the frenzy that shook them. How poorly made we are, she thought, how insufficient. The broad shoulders, the arms, the legs, the ears, noses, eyes, seemed to her attributes of monstrous beings who had fallen from some corner of the black sky.

En ese instante retrocedían a un lugar sin lugar, sin espacio, sin luz. Solo le quedaba el recuerdo del peso de las catedrales sobre sus cuerpos sin cuerpo. Perdió su otra memoria y perdió también el privilegio de la luz asombrosa. —

The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies.

if you looked at it a certain way it seemed like a monument to destroyed women-- their ossified bodies and shattered psyches.