Quotes About Body

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.

for not even the most powerful runes ever traced upon a body could guard against love's insidious poison.

he was mentally calculating my worth in terms of the breakdown of the chemical components of my body!

When she took the stage in the late 1850s, Olive became the first American woman to show her tattooed body publicly for profit. 32 At the time, tattoos were virtually unseen in the United States.

What she tells the Japanese is this lost opportunity which has made her what she is. The story she tells of this lost opportunity literally transports her outside herself and carries her toward this new man. To give oneself, body and soul, that's it.

Les baisers sur le corps font pleurer. On dirait qu'ils consolent.

emotions of that order, very subtle, very profound, very carnal, and essential, and completely unpredictable, can hatch entire lives in a body. that's what writing is. it's the pace of the written word passing through your body.

For several weeks she has sometimes wished she had a bed, or something akin to a bed, right there where she was, a bed on which to lay this heavy, leaden body, this body so difficult to move, this thankless and tender maturity, just on the verge of falling down upon an unresponsive, all-devouring earth. Ah, what is this body with which she suddenly feels herself saddled? Whatever became of the indefatigable, birdlike body that had been hers up till now?

Son corps de fille, sa plaie, sa calamité bienheureuse, il crie, il appelle le paradis perdu de son unité, il appelle sans cesse, désormais, qu'on le console, il n'est entier que dans un lit d'hôtel.

ufkun, renksiz, deÄŸiÅŸken, s?n?rlanmas? imkâns?z bir yerlerinde bir sald?r? baÅŸl?yor. zihnin bir yerlerinde bir sald?r? baÅŸl?yor, bedende ise giderek artan bir rahats?zl?k, daha önceki hiçbirinin an?s?na indirgenemez cinsten, kendi üslubunu arayan bir rahats?zl?k.

Is the soul only the supreme development of the body, the fragile evidence of the pain and pleasure of existing? Is it, on the contrary more ancient than the body, which is modeled on its image and which serves it momentarily, more or less well, as instrument?

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

Un cÅ"ur, c'est peut-être malpropre. C'est de l'ordre de la table d'anatomie et de l'étal de boucher. Je préfère ton corps.

Ce matin l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître. Paix... J'aime mon corps ; il m'a bien servi et de toutes les façons, et je ne lui marchande pas les soins nécessaires.

I shall pass over the somnambulism of desire, the abrupt resolution which sweeps away all others, the alacrity of a body which, finally, no longer obeys anything but itself. We often describe the happiness of a soul which disencumbers itself of the body; there are moments in life when the body disencumbers itself of the soul.

Cansarse es una manera de domar el cuerpo, pero el agotamiento del cuerpo termina por entumecer al alma. Queda por saber, Mónica, si un alma inquieta no vale más que un alma dormida.

Cansarse es una manera de domar el cuerpo, pero el agotamiento del cuerpo termina por entumecer el alma. Queda por saber, Mónica, si un alma inquieta no vale más que un alma dormida.

In vain did Zeno remind him that the stars, though they influence our destinies, do not determine them; and that our lives are regulated by the heart, that fiery star palpitating in the dark of our bodies, suspended there in its cage of flesh and bone, as strong and mysterious as the stars above, and obeying laws more complicated than the laws which we ourselves make.

Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat.

Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.

I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.

Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.