Quotes About Body

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and solu (...), where they dance in joy...

But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?

She pictures his jovial figure, dressed up in his T-short, shouting that Kafka was born in Prague, and she feels a desire rising through her body, the irrepressible desire to take a lover. Not to patch up her life as it is. But to turn it completely upside down. Finally take possession of her own fate.

She surrendered her body to the judgment of someone else's eyes- and that was a source of anxious uncertainty.

Întotdeauna m-a ÅŸocat ideea c? un trup superb poate fi o fabric? de secreÅ£ii; Å£i-am spus c? nu suport s? v?d o fat? suflându-ÅŸi nasul. Parc? te v?d; te-ai oprit, m-ai privit fix ÅŸi mi-ai spus pe un ton straniu, ÅŸtiutor, convins, ap?sat: Suflându-ÅŸi nasul? Mie îmi e destul s?-i v?d ochiul clipind, s? v?d miÅŸcarea pleoapei peste cornee, ca s? simt o sil? aproape insuportabil?.

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul

She desired her own body, newly discovered, intimate and alien beyond all others, incomparably exciting.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias - constipation, for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but because, on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.

After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this poor muscle and buried it in Poland. A dead person is treated either as trash or as a symbol. Either way, it's the same disrespect to his vanished individuality.

Now we can understand the meaning of Tereza's secret vice, her long looks and frequent glances in the mirror. It was a battle with her mother. It was a longing to be a body unlike other bodies, to find that the surface of her face reflected the crew of the soul charging up from below. It was not an easy task: her soul – her sad, timid, self-effacing soul – lay concealed in the depths of her bowels and was ashamed to show itself.

Un medico è una persona che accetta, per tutta la vita e con tutte le conseguenze, di occuparsi del corpo umano. E' questo consenso fondamentale (e non certo il talento o l'abilità) che gli permette il primo anno di università di entrare nella sala di anatomia e sei anni dopo di diventare medico.

Hace mucho tiempo, el hombre oía extrañado el sonido de un golpeteo dentro de su pecho y no tenía idea de su origen. El cuerpo era una jaula y dentro de ella había algo que miraba, escuchaba, temía, pensaba y se extrañaba; ese algo, ese resto que quedaba al sustraerle el cuerpo, ese algo era el alma. La cara no es más que una especie de tablero de instrumentos en el que desembocan todos los mecanismos del cuerpo.

The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.

Dar, e de-ajuns s? iube?ti la nebunie ?i s? auzi chior?itul ma?elor, pentru ca unitatea dintre trup ?i suflet, aceast? iluzie liric? a erei ?tiin?ifice, s? se destrame pe loc.

Dar cel ce nu are grij? de trupul s?u devine mult mai u?or o victim? a acestuia.

No hay nada de particular en los cuerpos desnudos! ¡Son normales! ¡Todo lo que es normal, es bello!

The daily defecation session is daily proof of the unacceptability of Creation. Either/or: either shit is acceptable (in which case don't lock yourself in the bathroom!) or we are created in an unacceptable manner.

Mas basta amar loucamente e ouvir o ruído dos intestinos para que a unidade da alma e do corpo, ilusão lírica da era científica, imediatamente se desfaça

Heel lang geleden luisterde de mens vol verwondering naar de regelmatige slagen in zijn borst en had geen idee wat het was. Hij kon zichzelf niet identificeren met zoiets vreemds en onbekends als een lichaam. Het lichaam was een kooi waarin iets keek, luisterde, vreesde, piekerde en zich verbaasde; dat iets, dat restant nadat het lichaam buiten beschouwing werd gelaten, was de ziel.

O seu impudor ostensivo vinha-lhes justamente da certeza de não disporem de qualquer poder de sedução. Estavam cheias de rancor pela juventude das mulheres e desejavam expor os seus corpos sexualmente utilizáveis para caluniarem e ridicularizarem a nudez feminina.

U sjedinjavanju dvaju tu?ih tijela nema ni?eg dragocjenog. Možda ponekad do?e i do sjedinjavanja duša. Tisu?u puta dragocjenije od toga jest, ako se tijelo stopi s vlastitom dušom i ako se zajedno prepuste istoj strasti. To se ponekad doga?a kad ?ovjek zaista voli; možda; vjerujem u to; ho?u da uvijek vjerujem u to.

The crew of her body rushed up to the deck of her soul.)