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Quotes About Body

Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.
~ David Foster Wallace
Otro legado de infancia: cuando a su cuerpo le sucedía algo doloroso o desagradable, Skip Atwater a menudo tenía la extraña impresión de que él no era de hecho un cuerpo que ocupaba espacio sino más bien una zona de espacio en sí en forma de cuerpo, impenetrable pero vacío, dotado de esa sensación vacua y estruendosa que asociamos con el espacio vacío.
~ David Foster Wallace
Chci sou?asnÄ› obývat malé, bezvýznamné tÄ›lo a ohromný nezbadatelný vesmír. Chci si odžít svuj nezbadatelný ?as a chci se pokusit žít v??ne. Chci jíst a spát a pracovat a založit si rodinu a umÃ…â"¢ít, ale zárove? nechci být nikdy víc tÄ›lem nežli duchem.
~ William Saroyan
Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
~ William Shakespeare
When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
~ William Shakespeare
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
~ William Shakespeare
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth are room enough
~ William Shakespeare
My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
~ William Shakespeare
Invest me in my motley. Give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.
~ William Shakespeare
Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
~ William Shakespeare
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
~ William Smith
The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses—it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency.
~ William Styron
the blood tingling in my veins. That wonderful feeling that only a hunter knows crept over my body.
~ Wilson Rawls
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
~ Winston Churchill
surely pain, suffering are as terrible in a worm's body as in the body of a giant, pain is "one" just as space is one, indivisible, wherever it appears, it is the same total horror.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
~ Woody Allen
I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
~ Woody Allen
In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.
~ Woody Allen
What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what's going on. But on the other hand, the body doesn't lie, as we now know. Nono, it'll be great, because all of those ph.Ds are in there, like, discussing modes of alienation, and we'll be in here quietly humping.
~ Woody Allen
Salir de noche y no mirar la luna es como dar el cuerpo sin alma.
~ Xavier Velasco
I had always found it unpleasant to have guests in my apartment. They filled up my rooms with strange sentences I would never have formulated in such a way. Today I found the sound of these sentences particularly unbearable. Sometimes I tried to follow only the sense of the conversation so as not to hear the sounds of the language. But they penetrated my body as though they were inseparable from the sense.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
~ Yann Martel
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.
~ Yann Martel
I looked up. I couldn't see him. He was hiding at the bottom of the boat. He appeared when he threw my mother's body overboard. His mouth was red. The water boiled with fish.
~ Yann Martel