Quotes About Bodies

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

They dig their graves under aloes because these succulents are poisonous to hyena, which might otherwise dig up the bodies and eat them. Many of the aloes here mark the grave of Zulu warriors felled at Isandlwana.

Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.

Spirits have more possibilities for nearly everything than do bodies—for example, more pleasures and pains, and more subtle and profound pleasures and pains, than bodies.

That day, that moment, opened a curiosity of bodies, shaped us as irrevocably as our first kiss, our first realizations. You go into that moment never really knowing if the closeness will wear well, if it is something that should happen. I know she wasn't sure of me, and I wasn't sure of me, either. But we discovered something in the unspoken, found care in our caring whispers, instinctive.

When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

My neighborhood is known for its old rich people and, subsequently, its hospitals. The closest of them now had a refrigerated truck parked outside in which dead bodies were being stored.

When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies – it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.

Hatred requires too many forces fully armed. None but public bodies can keep alive the sentiment.

Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more than anything else in life.

Old Men's Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the wretched life they bear, yet how they cherish it and how they fear its loss, these contrary and befuddled souls, tragicomically huddled inside their ancient, desiccated hides.

Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

Although Capote had taken up the single-suspect theory, the Tate detectives had by now abandoned it. Their sole reason for adopting it in the first place—Garretson—was no longer a factor. Because of the number of victims, the location of their bodies, and the use of two or more weapons, they were now convinced that "at least two suspects" were

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us — W.S. Merwin, "Voices Over Water," Garden Time . (Copper Canyon Press September 13, 2016)