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I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.
— Max Barry, Machine Man
This is why we must transcend our physical bodies. Because a body is always going to piss you off
— Suzanne Morrison
And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all.
— Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks
Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves?
— L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
— Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing
Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses of the five senses. Sound can paint a picture, produce a mood, trigger the senses to remember another time and place. From infancy we hear sound with our entire bodies. When I hear my own name, I have as much a sense of it entering my body through my back or my hand or my chest as through my ears. Sound speaks to the sensorium; the entire system of nerves that stimulates sensual responce.
— Louis Colaianni, The Joy of Phonetics and Accents
My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.
— Anna Johnson, Three Black Skirts: All You Need to Survive
Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves
— Lady  Grey, All Her Starry Fates
The major religious fundamentalisms—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu—certainly all demonstrate intense concern for and scrutiny of bodies, through dietary restrictions, corporeal rituals, sexual mandates and prohibitions, and even practices of corporeal mortification and abnegation. What primarily distinguishes fundamentalists from other religious practitioners, in fact, is the extreme importance they give to the body: what it does, what parts of it appear in public, what goes into and comes out of it. Even when fundamentalist norms require hiding a part of the body behind a veil, headscarf, or other articles of clothing, they are really signaling its extraordinary importance. Women’s bodies are obviously the object of the most obsessive scrutiny and regulation in religious fundamentalism, but no bodies are completely exempt from examination and control—men’s bodies, adolescents’ bodies, infants’ bodies, even the bodies of the dead. The fundamentalist body is powerful, explosive, precarious, and that is why it requires constant inspection and care…Nationalist fundamentalisms similarly concentrate on bodies through their attention to and care for the population. The nationalist policies deploy a wide range of techniques for corporeal health and welfare, analyzing birthrates and sanitation, nutrition and housing, disease control and reproductive practices. Bodies themselves constitute the nation, and thus the nation’s highest goal is their promotion and preservation. Like religious fundamentalisms, however, nationalisms, although their gaze seems to focus intently on bodies, really see them merely as an indication or symptom of the ultimate, transcendent object of national identity. With its moral face, nationalism looks past the bodies to see national character, whereas with its militarist face, it sees the sacrifice of bodies in battle as revealing the national spirit. The martyr or the patriotic soldier is thus for nationalism too the paradigmatic figure for how the body is made to disappear and leave behind only an index to a higher plane. Given this characteristic double relation to the body, it makes sense to consider white supremacy (and racism in general) a form of fundamentalism.
— Antonio Negri; Michael Hardt, Commonwealth
. . . there was a softness to Cash’s gaze that made her want to lean into it. It felt like being stroked with a paintbrush, all the way down her body, leaving everything tingling in its wake.
— Summer Hines, Some Things Stay With You: A Windswept Wyoming Romance
I also don’t think there’s any shame in saying that when I was raped, I became a victim, and to this day, while I am also many other things, I am still a victim.
— Roxanne Gay
If you fast, the fat in your body will waste away.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
and today,your bonesgathered your skinand said'Come on, let's do it again
— Upile Chisala, soft magic.
If you still wonder the true meaning of coordination, synchronization and team work, you have not understood your own body!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Acidity’ happens when too much of acidic emotion is still suppressed inside, let go of it and the body will respond
— Harrish Sairaman
All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
What more crime can a woman commit by suffocating her sensuous body behind the tight dress. Stay Nude, Breathe Life!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Smoking is neither an art nor a sport. Better to liberate yourself before the body retaliates, for its vengeance would be a furious blow enthused out of all the bygone years' mercy you thanklessly thought you were entitled to.
— Lukhman Pambra
I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques.
— Steven Magee
A police officer should legally be able to refuse body mounted electronic devices, based on the extensive range of evidence that biological toxicity is known to occur from long term exposure to their electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions.
— Steven Magee
You don’t have the body you don’t have a debt. Ask for a loan.
— Simon Mashalla
As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.
— Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood
If your body is telling you to slow down, listen to it. If your body is saying you should keep going... then keep going.
— Lynn Swan
What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.
— Nathan  Hill, The Nix
This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
Diana can read power levels,” Astrid said. “Did she ever…”Sam nodded. “She said the baby is a three bar. As a fetus. Who knows what it will be when it’s born. Or as it grows. Diana’s only, like, four or five months along. I should know exactly, but I forget. When she would talk about it I would kind of, you know.” He made a shivering move, like it all gave him the creeps.Astrid shook her head in disbelief. “Really. That’s the part of all this that makes you squirm: pregnancy.”“She made me touch her, you know, stomach. And she talked about her, um, her things.” He pointed at his chest and whispered, “Nipples.”“Yeah,” Astrid said dryly. “I could see where that would be devastating.
— Michael  Grant, Fear
We have local churches where we meet together as believers. We no longer go to Mount Sinai to meet God. Why not? Because the place of the tabernacle and the temple is now replaced by the body—your body and mine—in which God meets with us and God dwells with us, and where we have communion with Him. When we come to the church now, we don’t come to the sanctuary; we bring our sanctuaries with us. This individual entity is the locus of appointment between God and me. There He meets. There He dwells. Will the God who went to such pains to physically decorate the tabernacle and the temple not also take great care in physically designing the human body?
— Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
Zachariah, Zachariah,' whispers Rachel, casting a practised eye over the back of his head and down the length of him, from the shoulder blades where his wings once grew, epochs ago, in some other guise: angel—guardian, avenging—or great vagrant bird—Daurian Jackdaw, Chimney Swift, Pacific Loon!
— Emma Richler, Be My Wolff
The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among
A Wyvern’s body is different from the body of a young girl in several major respects. First, it has wings, which most young girls do not (there are exceptions). Second, it has a very long, thick tail, which some young girls may have, but those who find themselves so lucky keep them well hidden. Let us just say, there is a reason some ladies wore bustles in times gone by! Third, it weighs about as much as a tugboat carrying several horses and at least one boulder. There are girls who weigh that much, but as a rule, they are likely to be frost giants. Do not trouble such folk with asking after the time or why their shoes do not fit so well.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body,” you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor
— Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People
I am sometimes in awe of all that I have been exposed to culturally that I never would have discovered if not for the pursuit of sex or sexual gratification. I think of all the movies I watched when I was young simply because I thought I might glimpse a nude body.
— Drew Nellins Smith, Arcade
The Beetle’s body, whether it be a ’49 split or a ’73 Jeans Bug, or an ‘03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930’s. This is evident in it’s body styling which aside from it’s rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn’t seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!
— Christina Engela, Bugspray
Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside
— Becky Chambers
There's water in my bonesa ghost of a chance
— Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
His other hand finds my cheek, and he wipes away my tears with his thumb. The chocolate scent overwhelms me as he bends over and whispers in my ear, “No, Cassie. No, no, no.”I throw my arm around his neck and press his dry cheek against my wet one. I’m shaking like an epileptic, and for the first time I can feel the weight of the quilts on the top of my toes because the blinding dark sharpens your other senses.I’m a bubbling stew of random thoughts and feelings. I’m worried my hair might smell. I want some chocolate. This guy holding me—well, it’s more like I was holding him—has seen me in all my naked glory. What did he think about my body? What did I think about my body? Does God really care about promises? Do I really care about God? Are miracles something like the Red Sea parting or more like Evan Walker finding me locked in a block of ice in a wilderness of white?“Cassie, it’s going to be okay,” he whispers into my ear, chocolate breath.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.
— lauren klarfeld
My BODY isn't flawed, your thinking is. #UniquelyMe
— Stephanie Lahart
I will meet you where moon shines down upon our naked, writhing bodies, undulating together in a moment, which brings ecstasy to entwined hearts, beating as one...
— Virginia Alison
Guy’s whole body was humming. Normally he thought only of his head – his eyes, his smile – and was aware of his body as merely the principle of forward propulsion trundling him along. But now he was all these bright pools of sensuality – his nipples, his half-hard cock, his tingling anus, even his feet. He was glowing all over and he felt the animal in him was longing to shed its clothes.
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
You are the actor. Your body brings in something, call it presence, and it happens by degrees. Arms, chest, haunches and thighs, calves and feet. The body, firing synapses, in between and in the gray matter. On and off. The billions of cells, the body mechanisms, the busy regulating, the adjusting, the retinas contracting and expanding, body secreting, beating, moving, breathing and pulsing. Your being registers here. Swallow. Inhale. Open mouth to press air out to touch the flesh in the throat to make sound. You are the actor. A thing of flesh and feeling. Perfect because you aren't.
— Richard Maxwell, Theater for Beginners
I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
— Jorge Luis Borges
My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.
— R.X. Bird
After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.
— Sonja Livingston, Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses
In his worn blue jeans and a black T-shirt, the early-morning sun hits Isaiah just right, highlighting him like he’s a relaxed tiger bathing in the warmth. The light glints off his double rows of hoop earrings and there’s a twinkle in his eyes that makes me feel like he has a secret, but not the type kept from me. No, it’s the type that suggests I’m in on it, and that it involves a lack of my clothes.And maybe some of his.As if I spoke the thought instead of keeping it internal, Isaiah lifts his shirt to scratch at a spot right above his hip bone. Good Lord, he’s pretty. I soak in the sight of the muscles in his abdomen like I’m a plant in the Sahara Desert, except it doesn’t quench my thirst. It only causes my mouth to run dry.Isaiah smiles like he knows what I’m thinking, and heat licks up my body and pools in my cheeks. What really causes my blood to curve into itself is the wicked gleam in his eye. It’s a spark that says he’s done very naughty things I’ve never even heard about.
— Katie McGarry, Crash into You
This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.
— Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
We live in a body of humiliation and disgrace and that's why our body will be changed.Think of that next time you want to alienate yourself from people for one reason or another. If anything we should be praying.
— Mary Tornyenyor
Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in the way I occupy myself when I am well . . . completely - to the edge of both my house and body. No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways.
— William H. Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
While it is clear that our food choices are a matter of personal responsibility, it is important to recognize that we do not make our choices in a vacuum. We select our foods in an environment toxic with government policies that encourage cheap prices for foods with low nutrient value, and in which billions of dollars have been spent to convince us to distrust ourselves, to overeat, and to eat foods laced with ingredients that raise our setpoints and damage our health.
— Linda Bacon
Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.
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DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior. Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.
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If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.
— Sunday Adelaja
My recovery from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) was based around radiation detoxification, restoring the DC voltage of the body and removing the clots.
— Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Our body is simply a vehicle for our soul. But if we want our soul to travel in style, we must take good care of our body.
— Charles F. Glassman
the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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
The fingers on the windows leave traces on them
—  the fingers on the body leave invisible traces. (Les doigts sur les vitres - Laissent des traces sur elles
It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
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, Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire
Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.
— James Hannaham, Delicious Foods
All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.
— Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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, The Red Light Princess
None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.
— Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)
— Charles de Leusse
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, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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.
I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)
— Charles de Leusse
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, A Voice Through a Cloud
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 Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Body is morning dew that shines to the rise of the hands. (Corps est rosée du matin - Qui brille au lever des mains.)
— Charles de Leusse
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, The Kills
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, Her Dark Curiosity
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, The Painter
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, Miss Lonelyhearts
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, Leaving the Atocha Station
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.
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, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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, The Guermantes Way
When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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
Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.
— F. Sionil José, Gagamba: The Spider Man
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.
— Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives
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 Madonnas of Leningrad
The body is the garden of the soul.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America
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, Averno
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, Suttree
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, London Calling
One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other in optical and other physical characters and so built up together as to give the body certain structural features. Chemical examination further teaches us that these kinds of material are composed of various chemical substances, a large number of which have this characteristic that they possess a considerable amount of potential energy capable of being set free, rendered actual, by oxidation or some other chemical change. Thus the body as a whole may, from a chemical point of view, be considered as a mass of various chemical substances, representing altogether a considerable capital of potential energy.
— Michael Foster
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
— Carl Ludwig
The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook. The suspended body; a harbinger of good news. Love was lost. Love was found.
— Chirag Tulsiani
The key to the Hercules Method is to focus your mind, body and spirit towards one goal. By bringing all three into alignment, the physical enthusiast can bring all of them under conscious control. Such control is the key to change.
— Justin Jordan, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode
The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul
— Marina G. Roussou
The disciplined soul hardly needs "Yoga" to control the body it temporarily resides in.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock. They make love between eight and ten at night. They work forty hours a week, read the Sunday paper on Sunday, play chess on Tuesday nights. When their stomach growls, they look at their watch to see if it is time to eat. When they begin to lose themselves in a concert, they look at the clock above the stage to see when it will be time to go home. They know that the body is not a thing of wild magic, but a collection of chemicals, tissues, and nerve impulses. Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. As such, the body must be addressed in the language of physics. And if the body speaks, it is the speaking only of so many levers and forces. The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
— Alan Lightman
The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.
— Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.
— Philip Shepard
When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep them in the silent transfer of vows of the heart. When bodies talk, a steady stare and firm glance becomes a rod of correction. When bodies talk, they speak to us all in quiet whispers, heart-to-heart, and soul-to-soul, in soundless conversations.
— Stella Payton
I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.
— Elaine Seiler, Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening
Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.
— SupaNova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
In existence; you are matter, form or body, Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness. When you become formless in pure consciousness; You dissolve into that absolute presence.
— Gian Kumar
That's the claim. The Arl and the Prince, both killed at West Hill." she glanced at Maric, crooking one corner of her mouth in grim amusement. "Apparently your body was not distinguishable from those of regular Fereldan men and thus couldn't be found, according to the usurper.""Well that's just rude.
— David Gaider, The Stolen Throne
That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.
— James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life
That there was no God was a given, as far as Hope was concerned, and being nice to people and making the most of your life struck her as a reasonable enough conclusion to draw from it, and in any case what she wanted to do. But besides the spires of theology and the watch-towers of ideology, it seemed a very shaky hut indeed, and not one that offered her much shelter or would stand up in court.She couldn't see a way to make her objection to the fix a deduction from any body of thought. It came from a body of flesh, her own, and that was enough for her. She doubted that this would be enough for anyone else.
— Ken MacLeod, Intrusion
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.
— Sierra DeMulder
The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key.
— Arcade Fire
The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive.
— Francesca Lia Block, Ecstasia
The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
— Pat Conroy, Beach Music
You are a human being, not a human body.
— Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.
— David Levithan, Every Day
...love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.
— Kim Thúy, Ru
The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.
— Will Forest, Co-ed Naked Philosophy
Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Days to Better Balance: Find More Balance in a Busy World
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
— Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
— Philip Sington, The Valley of Unknowing
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955
Do not keep the slanderer away,treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean,babbling about this and that.
— Kabir
Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.
— Jorie Graham
My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier... sigh*
— Hiroko Sakai
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
— Steven Herrick
All these pricks gathering around her body, trying to reach and pierce her rose.
— Anthony Liccione
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
— Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.
— Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
a) he's late. b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked.Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.
— John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
— C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.
— Audrey Hart, The Dig
Can I tell you something?" He tilted his head, moving in closer still, so close that she could feel his breath against her cheek. "Do you want to know what my grandma used to say about kisses on the forehead?"He pressed his lips to her brow, holding the silk soft kiss for a long moment while Isobel stood in place, unable to bring herself to shove him away."She told me it’s the kind of kiss we save for the dead.
— Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.
— A.A. Milne
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.
— Lemmy Kilmister
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
There is safety in the very heart of danger.
— Vincent van Gogh
Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.
— C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
— Adam Levin, The Instructions
I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?” “It’s just—I mean—I just do, is all.” Her cheeks burned. She shouldn’t have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. “No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?
— Stacia Kane, Unholy Ghosts
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
— Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.
— Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.
— Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target
The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
— Alain de Botton
All it takes is rumor...The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.
— Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.
— William S. Burroughs, Painting and Guns
But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment’s consideration will teach that, however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful.""If anything happens---""If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk."Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife.
— M.L. LeGette, For the Kingdom
As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City