Quotes About Body

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG.

Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.

O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that—being mere darkness—I'll lose myself and become night as well, without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped-for sun shining with the future.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

Sou místico, mas só com o corpo. A minha alma é simples e não pensa.

El cuerpo vive porque se desintegra, sin desintegrarse del todo. Si no se desintegrara segundo a segundo, sería un mineral. El alma vive porque es tentada constantemente, aunque se resista. Todo vive porque se opone a algo. Pero, si yo no existiera, nada existiría, porque no habría a qué oponerse, como la paloma de mi discípulo Kant, que, al volar en el aire leve, pensaba que podría volar mejor en el vacío.

In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our own idea. The masturbator may be abject, but in point of fact he's the perfect logical expression of the lover. He's the only one who doesn't feign and doesn't fool himself.

pude enfim, eu que não dormira, erguer lentamente o corpo exausto de nada da cama de onde pensara o universo

Só com um jeito do corpo Feito sem dares por isso Fazes mais mal que o demônio Em dias de grande enguiço.

A vida pode ser sentida como uma náusea no estômago, a existência da própria alma como um incômodo dos músculos. A desolação do espírito, quando agudamente sentida, faz marés, de longe, no corpo, e dói por delegação.

Sé que desperté y que duermo todavía. Mi cuerpo antiguo, molido de tanto vivir, me dice que es muy temprano aún...

El dominio más grande de sí mismo es la indiferencia por si mismo, considerando alma y cuerpo la casa y la finca donde el Destino ha querido que pasemos nuestra vida.

Que de tu cuerpo de ánfora inútil sepa yo extraer el alma de los nuevos versos y de tu ritmo lento de ola efímera, sepan mis dedos temblorosos buscar las líneas pérfidas de una prosa virgen de ser oída.

Oggi la mia anima è triste fino al corpo. Tutto me stesso mi duole: la memoria, gli occhi, le braccia.

El arte todo, toda la libertad, consiste en someter el espíritu lo menos posible, dejando al cuerpo que se someta a la voluntad.

No sueño con poseerte. ¿Para qué? Sería traducir a plebeyo mi sueño. Poseer un cuerpo es ser banal. Soñar con poseer un cuerpo es tal vez peor, aunque sea difícil serlo: es soñarse banal, horror supremo.

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.

The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always...

I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.

If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.