Body Quotations
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| The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. | |||
| - W.H. Auden | |||
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| Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
| We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| The body never lies. | |||
| - Martha Graham | |||
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| Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? | |||
| - Thomas Hardy | |||
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| Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
| What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. | |||
| - D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? | |||
| - Katherine Mansfield | |||
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| Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. | |||
| - Henry Miller | |||
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| Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. | |||
| - Michel de Montaigne | |||
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| The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| Beyond my body my veins are invisible. | |||
| - Antonio Porchia | |||
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| A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. | |||
| - Llewelyn Powers | |||
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| It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. | |||
| - Marcel Proust | |||
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| Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. | |||
| - Osbert Sitwell | |||
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| Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
| Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||