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Quotes About Bodily

Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
~ Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.
~ Ali Wong
Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.
~ Eula Biss
I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.
~ Ash Sarkar
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. – Colossians 2:9
~ Robert J. Morgan
Broke the ice with, "Don't you think it curious that men shake hands with the same hand they use to wipe their arses?
~ Robert Littell
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The Egyptians believe that many illnesses are caused by the contaminating residue of internal bodily wastes. If you're suffering from one of the maladies common to many travellers, however, your body might already be purging itself on its own.
~ Donald P. Ryan
Directional ornaments not only follow and enhance bodily movements but also dynamically represent what today we would call prosthetic possibilities by expanding the bodily periphery with inanimate objects.
~ Anne Anlin Cheng
Retour atroce, hier, dans le RER, en raison de l'envie d'uriner. Cette rétention a entraîné les douleurs de la nuit.
~ Annie Ernaux
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Diarrhea is hardly ever a good thing, but going to the bathroom once or twice a day brings serenity and balance, a kind of inner peace. Not great inner peace, but a small and shining inner peace.
~ Roberto Bolano
Es extraño: mi sudor es caliente y el sudor de Rosario es frío, reptiliano, y tiene un sabor agridulce (el mío es claramente salado).
~ Roberto Bolano
T]here is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.
~ Rowan Williams
If we suppress them, feelings can indeed hide themselves from the conscious mind, but they frequently resurface in the form of bodily symptoms, which conceal their real content and intensity, making it much more difficult to deal with them than it would be if they were admitted to consciousness.
~ Alice Miller
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
~ Saint Augustine
Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!
~ Esther Hicks
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
~ Anonymous
Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads
~ Frank Herbert
Resurrection means bodily life after 'life after death,' or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of 'death'
~ N. T. Wright
According to Seneca: 'Turning pale, shedding tears, the first stirrings of sexual arousal, a deep sigh, a suddenly sharpened glance, anything along these lines: whoever reckons them a clear token of passion and a sign of the mind's engagement is just mistaken and fails to understand that they're involuntary bodily movements.
~ Antonia Macaro
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the Universe. ... Reflect upon the multitude of bodily and mental events taking place in the same brief time, simultaneously in every one of us and so you will not be surprised that many more events, or rather all things that come to pass, exist simultaneously in the one and entire unity, which we call the Universe. ... We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a Citizen of the Universe'.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If now you choose what is for your spiritual advantage, hold it fast; if what is for your bodily advantage, admit that it is so chosen, and keep your choice with all modesty.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
~ Margaret Atwood