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Quotes About Bodies

I couldn't be angered by her deceit-it didn't come from treachery. We women harbor our intimacies in locked places in our bodies. They are ours to relinquish when we choose.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I couldn't be angered by her deceit—it didn't come from treachery. We women harbor our intimacies in locked places in our bodies. They are ours to relinquish when we choose.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato's Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
~ Susan Sontag
It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked.
~ Susan Sontag
Our clothes were plastered to our bodies with wet. My hair - which is dark and curly - was as full of droplets as a Cloud. I rained every time I moved.
~ Susanna Clarke
Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!' 'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'
~ Josh Lanyon
Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
All the early stages took place in water: the origin of life; the birth of animals, the evolution of nervous systems and brains, and the appearance of complex bodies that makes brains worth having [...] When animals did crawl onto dry land, they took the sea with them. All the basic activities of life occur in water-filled cells bounded by membranes, tiny containers whose insides are remnants of the sea.
~ Julia Baird
I see bodies as individual things.
~ Joni Mitchell
NEOWISE has two goals: One is to characterize asteroids, figure out how big and how bright they are, really basic information about these bodies; and we also find asteroids.
~ Carrie Nugent
Our BODIES—their health, their availability—are an unavoidable domain of concern for us as human beings.
~ Fernando Flores
It was not just a matter of learning how to draw from nature the lights and shadows on each muscle, which is what Verrocchio and his fellow artists did. Rather, it was a matter of learning how to capture the effect of particle-filled air on the luminous forms of people's faces and their bodies.
~ Francesca Fiorani
Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills—everything.
~ Billy Graham
That we have iodine in our thyroid glands proves that our bodies were fashioned from supernova material.
~ Bob Berman
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
Sara said she has feelings for me. He had no reason to doubt it. But there are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel . Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.
~ Haruki Murakami
Leaning into disappointment in our bodies can make it harder to live and take care of ourselves with injuries, chronic pain and illness, or other disabilities we may have.
~ Heather Corinna
I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
~ Oren Peli
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
~ Caitlin Doughty
We know the transfer market is not an easy period for players, for their minds, for their preparations, too, for their bodies.
~ Hugo Lloris
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
~ Sonia Choquette
Thus the souls of departed saints are not affected by the death which dismisses them from their bodies, because their flesh rests in hope, no matter what indignities it receives after sensation is gone.
~ St. Augustine
Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
~ Stasi Eldredge
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
~ Lucretius