Quotes About Body

They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost- yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, (john Galt)

I was already thinking there was no way out of the vicious circle of madness—after all, no one can think with anything but his brain, no one can be outside himself to check whether the processes taking place in his body are normal.

It's so hard to explain what the dead really want. Not to be alive again, heavens no, never that: a passenger buckled into that depreciating vehicle of the body, that cramped one-seater with its structural flaws and piss-poor mileage, its failures and betrayals, its worn, nonfunctioning, irreplaceable parts.

One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. Awareness begins with remembering what we tend to forget. Drifting through life on a cushioned surge of impulses is but one of many strategies of forgetting. Not only do we forget to remember, we forget that we live in a body with senses and feelings and thoughts and emotions and ideas.

Even the deep inner senses: even proprioception

I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.

I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is. The

I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

There is nothing like daily decision-making to get the brain functioning and the body moving.

Lewis made sure Shaney left with an armload of books, a whole series, to prove to Peta why she'd been there, but the whole time, stacking them up, it felt like an overcorrection, like trying to hide a body on the lawn by covering it with eight other bodies.

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law.

Never scrub your arse with a wire brush.

Mass: The quantity of matter in a body; its inertia, or resistance to acceleration.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

It's about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they're too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth's dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

When you need Stayfree MaxiPads to absorb the expectorants produced by your insulted body, you are in serious fucking trouble.

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.

An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities.

To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.