Quotes about bodies

Munia Khan -

Dark night knows what full moon requires When all your love my heart acquiresCelestial bodies no more faded Life makes sound silence invaded

Celia McMahon - Skye

When we die, our bodies turn to dust,” he says. “If you were nobody of consequence, you're forgotten unless you do something worth remembering.” When he looks my way, I purse my lips and look down. “Otherwise, you're just another place marker in the ground. These buildings will rot here, their bodies are above the ground taunting us with what we did wrong as a people. Reminding us of the evil we're capable of. They are constant.

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - Numbercaste

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

Alice von Hildebrand - The Privilege of Being a Woman

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

Traci Brimhall -

These are the ruinsI mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.

André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name

Our bodies won't have secrets now.

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is par

Amelia Gray - Museum of the Weird

[Olive’s] left foot was bleeding through a wide swath of bandages onto the tarp it was resting on. The bowl next to her was full of blood.Olive looked a little pale. “I don’t think I should move,” she said.“What are you doing?” Roger shut the door behind him and stood with his back to it.“I decided I might try to eat my toes,” Olive said, closing her eyes. “But now that I’ve started, I don’t think I should move.”Roger pushed himself off the wall and knelt down next to her. He unbuckled her silve

Christina Engela - Demonspawn

Soon it would be his turn. Kaine wondered how he would meet Death. His ship was a mess, in every sense of the word. Systems were in disarray, damaged equipment malfunctioning, and control panels shattered by blaster-fire littered the decks. In the fighting, severe hull damage had caused parts of the ship to be sealed off. Dead bodies – or raw red chunks of them – lay everywhere. The corridors were dark where the lights had failed. His footsteps echoed eerily as he ran down them. He’d been on the

Rory Freedman - Skinny Bitch

We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.

Patrick Califia-Rice - Some Women

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'…

Jewel E. Ann - Scarlet Stone

I would never tell you what to believe, Daniel, so please don't tell me that my opinion is wrong. We should be allowed a few basic human rights in life: the right to decide what goes into our bodies and the right to have an opinion without feeling shamed for it.

Martijn Benders -

I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?

Penn Jillette - No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

William Boyd - Waiting for Sunrise

he needed the security of other bodies.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies.

Meghan Don - The New Divine Feminine: Spiritual Evolution for a Woman's Soul

Women are understood to have an advantage when it comes to embodiment as by their very nature they are considered to be closer to their bodies, more available to them. So here we have a turning of the tides: rather than the attunement to the body being an obstacle and a curse, it now becomes a spiritual advantage and a way of advancement.

Ayize Jama-Everett - The Liminal People

I didn't just feel it; I recorded each and every sensation. I can replicate each one. I will. I'll play it back plus ten for the pastardthat caused my love to fall. And before they go down, I'll wet the concrete with their brain mattter. I'll explode their marrow out of their bones and make a mess of their capillaries. I'll make a paste of their eyes, Yasmine, I promise. I'll make them bleed from their ears and turn their digestive system against them. They'll digest their own organs. I'll incre

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Nobodies are created by bad attitudes and sin. God had no time creating nobodies!

Terry Goodkind - Blood of the Fold

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person.We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

Sunday Adelaja -

God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will

John Green - Looking for Alaska

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

Sunday Adelaja -

Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him

Roman Payne - The Wanderess

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

Roman Payne - The Wanderess

I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.

Patricia Lockwood - Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

We worshipped a great white body that was an avalanche of good news, and we slit it open in every part. “That can’t go through the mail,” the postman gasped, “because that is a super-stabbed body!” The super-stabbed body rose up, with many butterknives sticking out of it, and said, “I AM the mail.” It had so many lovers.

Jerry Bridges - The Pursuit of Holiness

We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.

Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

Mencius -

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney -

Holographic Theory shows that it is possible for our bodies to make decisions based on the experience of others.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!

Michaela Ruiz -

I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again.

Karen Quan - Write like no one is reading 2

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

Dejan Stojanovic - The Creator

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

Sunday Adelaja -

Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King

Val Uchendu -

Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology

Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache -

One day, it will all make sense, it will all be revealed. Until then, we learn to live and accept our shadows, our Déjà vu's, our dreams, our intuition that takes us to places that our minds never conceived, our bodies only perceived and our souls gladly remembered. Conversations and experiences amuse me, for I am experimenting with my feelings in ways that I can only do down here. Language makes up for a very interesting, yet bizarre way of putting thoughts into spoken form for the sound to mov

Kamand Kojouri -

This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth fe

Garth Stein - The Art of Racing in the Rain

However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea?

Emer O'Toole - Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.

Christopher Fry -

THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But there’ll be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there won’t! Just see me As I am, like a perambulating Vegetable, patched with inconsequential Hair, looking out of two small jellies for the meansOf life, balanced on folding bones, my sexNo Beauty but a blemish to be hiddenBehind judicious rags, driven and scorched By boomerang rages and lunacies which neverTou

Jess C. Scott - Master & Servant

Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right.

James Oppenheim -

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

Steven Magee -

The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using a variety of toxic industrial chemicals. 6. Adding massive amounts of pollution to the atm

Deb Baker - Murder Passes the Buck

The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.

Michael Bassey Johnson - Trials Of A Damsel

Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Khadija Rupa - Unexpressed Feelings

But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.

Natalie Angier -

More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away.

Girdhar Joshi - Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Girdhar Joshi - Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest as teats for the suckling of young, and their physical resemblance to udders on cows or the swinging distensions on lactating hounds was suddenly unavoidable. Funny how even women forget what breasts are for.The cleft between my legs transformed as well. It lost a certain outrageousness, an obscenity, or achieved an obscenity of a different sort. The flaps seemed to open not to a narrow, snug

Patrice Kindl -

I was banished from that world forever, I knew. I couldn't go back now. One day soon I would go away from here entirely; I would leave this house, perhaps never to return.I hugged myself, comforting my fear. Very well then, I thought, I will be my own house. I will build myself a house out of my own flesh and bones where my frightened child-self can find shelter. After all, isn't that one of the things that women do? We are houses for our children, shielding them from harm within the stronghold

Baruch Spinoza - Complete Works

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.

Lidia Yuknavitch - The Book of Joan

Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Lorrie Moore - Like Life

How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.

Jenny Nordberg - The Underground Girls of Kabul

Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

James Jones - From Here to Eternity

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselve

Meg Rosoff - What I Was

Time erodes us all.

Megan Chance - The Spiritualist

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

Egon Schiele -

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Alexander Schmemann - Where Is Thy Sting?

The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates us from the prison of the body, as they say, from this perennial dependency on the material, physical, and bodily life - finally rendering our souls light, weightless, free, spiritual? We [must] consider more profoundly the meaning of the body... We must consider the role of the body in our, in my, life. On the one

Christina Baker Kline - A Piece of the World

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

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