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Quotes About Body

Something's nibbling my spleen!
~ Steven Erikson
The body will totter past the dead husk of its soul, sometimes for days, sometimes for years.
~ Steven Erikson
The Warrens of Magic dwelt in the beyond. Find the gate and nudge it open a crack. What leaks out is yours to shape. With these words a young woman set out on the path to sorcery. Open yourself to the Warren that comes to you — that finds you. Draw forth its power – as much as your body and soul are capable of containing — but remember, when the body fails, the gate closes.
~ Steven Erikson
Judgement, the coarse, thorn-studded brambles of retribution, they could snag an entire people, and as the blood streamed down each body was lifted higher, lifted from the ground. The vicious snare carried them into the righteous sky. Reason could not reach that high, and in the heavens madness spun untamed.
~ Steven Erikson
Paran could feel nothing but the white fire of vengeance, filling his mind, coruscating through his body.
~ Steven Erikson
In a body with nothing to do, the mind will dance.
~ Steven Erikson
Hurt was nothing. Was meaningless. But no, there was value in pain, if only to remind oneself that one still lived. When nothing normal could be regained, ever, then other pleasures had to be found. Cultivated, the body and mind taught anew, to delight in a darker strain.
~ Steven Erikson
He felt his own fear racing through his body, and it was with trembling hands that he read the Eel's message.
~ Steven Erikson
When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.
~ Steven Levenkron
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?
~ Steven Levenkron
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.
~ Steven Levenkron
Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.
~ Steven Levenkron
When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction.
~ Steven Wright
Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
~ Steven Wright
The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.
~ Steven Wright
I donated my body to science...fiction.
~ Steven Wright
I'm donating my body to science...fiction.
~ Steven Wright
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
~ Stevie Smith
Dream or reality? I still don't know which. But I was aware, in my heart, that illusion or not, I was no longer virgin in this body, and that Beth Metatronim was responsible for it.
~ Storm Constantine
He saw that the peacock wings of the angel had unfurled, revealing his perfect body. It was covered in scars.
~ Storm Constantine
His body had become merely a numb vessel to which his mind could return and rest, whenever astral travel became too tiring.
~ Storm Constantine
He was like a sculptor, shaping flesh. His hands, his lips, travelled her body, carrying sensation.
~ Storm Constantine
I am Shemyaza's vizier, his adviser. The age of this body has little to do with the maturity of my soul, or the fact that once I lived in Grigori flesh.
~ Storm Constantine