Body Quotes

The body is given to us by God for the fulfillment of His plan.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In the lingering moments before you die your body releases DMT. The same drug that makes you dream. The same drug found in every living animal. It's not an evolutionary trick to make you survive. Your body is choosing to release this drug now because it believes your fate is too grim for you to comprehend. So you dream. You dream that everything will be fine. You dream that nothing happened at all. It's in this moment that your body sits across from you. It tells you 'looks like we're not gonna make it this time.' You sit around a fire and recollect the past before soon parting ways back to the atomic ether. Your body does this because it loves you. You have never met anyone like your body. Your body has been with you everyday, good and bad. It's even kept a journal of your life carved in scars. Your eyelashes always wiped the tears from your eyes.

~ Anonymous

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

~ Leslie Jamison

We have a fractured understanding of how the body exists in physical space and also a deeper internal sense of the body and its purposes. We are, in a way, disconnected from equations of reproduction, or our sexuality has evolutionarily been tilted in a different direction. It begs the scientific question: to what purpose? It doesn’t feel accidental to me that throughout history queer people have been magical, holy, and artistic.

~ Kazim Ali

Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.

~ James Hannaham

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

~ Becky Chambers

Hannibal knew your beauty was trouble. Only bad things could come from such a pretty girl. You were made for temptation. You would be a source of jealousy and greed. Men would lust, plot and kill to claim you as their own. He decided to place you in the public domain and donate your body to the pimps as a gift to the people.

~ James W. Bodden

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

~ Lucy Grealy

I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body.

~ S.j. Watson

I simply ate a fish-head, but fish-heads won't fillme now. Your attention is a fish-head,so throw it back into my new body, backinto the body climbing the stairs.

~ Patricia Lockwood

We have hands, we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and sweep me into some wideness, some vast expanse of blue-grey nothingness.

~ Denton Welch

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

~ Plato

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

~ Steven Pinker

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

~ George Lakoff

Sometimes I daydream about merging my body with my computer so that I can more fully enter the landscapes of Google Earth, lush surface world without pollution or traffic, planet seen from the vantage point of space and roving surveillance vehicles, a motionless field, magnifying the normal imperfections and irregularities of the earth so that the planet is rendered transparent, misshapen and yet intoxicating in its languishing distinction from the real.

~ Andrew Durbin

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

~ Richard House

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

~ Megan Shepherd

If Cupid misses the heart, he touches the body fatally. (Si Cupidon rate le cœur, - Il touche mortellement le corps)

~ Charles De Leusse

As day gradually turns to night, Nadia then lifts her naked body from the floor, and like a goddess, she moves across the room with a stride that gives complement to every curve of her figure. She now leans over the coffee table to strike a match that breaks the light of night that clings to her. One by one, Nadia lights each candle in perfect form as the glowing contrast of light and dark dances around the edges of her beautiful body. She then looks at me again, she being this magical creature who has given me life to every body and realm; and oh how grateful I am that she has found me.

~ Luccini Shurod

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

~ Nathanael West

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

~ Ben Lerner

A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.

~ Cliff James

There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands, that is why i dance.

~ Paul Bamikole

We’ve been put into war, between body and soul. 28.06.11

~ Vicdo

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

~ Neil Shubin

It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a different realm, worlds apart from us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Were we to meet a brigand on the road, we might manage to make him conscious of his own personal interest if not our plight. But to ask pity of our body is like talking to an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the sea, and with which we should be terrified to find ourselves condemned to live.

~ Marcel Proust

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

~ Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do nearly anything if I could find the right book at the library.It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.

~ Dee Williams

Little known fact: When you get really scared and too many scary things happen at once, you can leave your body. I don’t know if it’s your soul or your consciousness or what, but you can literally float up in the air over your body and watch what it’s doing.

~ Dinah Katt

You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.

~ F. Sionil José

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

~ Dallas Willard

Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned by the Roman senate to die of hunger, and his daughter has come to his prison cell and offered her breast to feed him. This has nothing to do with with the decorous love or amorous passions one is more accustomed to seeing in a painting. It is raw and wretched and demeaning. In the end, we are physical bodies and every abstract notion about love sinks beneath this fact.

~ Debra Dean

The body is the garden of the soul.

~ Tony Kushner

Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know.

~ Louise Glück

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

~ Sara Sheridan