Selected body quotes

1. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

2. The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

3. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

4. By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

5. I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

6. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

7. I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

8. We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

9. Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

10. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

11. Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease.

12. It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

13. The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

14. I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

15. Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

16. Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

17. The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

18. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

19. The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

20. I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

21. The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

22. When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

23. Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

24. But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

25. Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.

26. The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

27. The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

28. Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

29. Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

30. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

31. Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

32. Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.

33. It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on or from my body.

34. Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

35. Hands are the heart's landscape.

36. Here lies Howard Campbell's essence, Freed from his body's noisome nuisance. His body, empty, prowls the earth, Earning what a body's worth. If his body and his essence remain apart, Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

37. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

38. As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

39. It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.

40. * What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

41. 'I did used to like trampolining, but I'm probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I've had three children.'

42. There is a great directing head of people and things - a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world. I am convinced that the body is made up of entities that are intelligent and are directed by this Higher Power. When one cuts his finger, I believe it is the intelligence of these entities which heals the wound. When one is sick, it is the intelligence of these entities which brings convalescence. You know that there are living cells in the body so tiny that the microscope cannot find them at all. The entities that give life and soul to the human body are finer still and lie infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When these entities leave the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless and dead.

43. There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

44. Anything that affects your senses ... is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.

45. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

46. 'I'll be going now,' she said. Shinji made no answer and a surprised look came over his face. He had caught sight of a black streak that ran straight across the front of her red sweater. Hatsue followed his gaze and saw the dirty smudge, just in the spot where she had been leaning her breast against the concrete parapet. Bending her head, she started slapping her breast with her open hands. Beneath her sweater, which all but seemed to be concealing some firm supports, two gently swelling mounds were set to trembling ever so slightly by the brisk brushing of her hands. Shinji stared in wonder. Struck by her hands, the breasts seemed more like two small, playful animals. The boy was deeply stirred by the resilient softness of their movement. The streak of dirt was finally brushed out.

47. And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

48. In man, personality is usually defined with reference to self-consciousness rather than to individuality; but the power of reflection and self-knowledge is linked up, in our type of personality at least, with the new flight of individuality - conscious memory seems necessarily to imply a vast increase of independence, so that it is all one whether we define the possessor of personality as a self-conscious individual, or as an individual whose individuality is more extensive both in space and time than the material substance of his body. Personality, as we know it, is free compared with the individuality of the lower animals; but it is still weighted down with the body. There may be personalities which have not merely transcended substance, but are rid of it altogether: in all ages the theologian and the mystic have told of such 'disembodied spirits,' postulated by the one, felt by the other, and now the psychical investigator with his automatic writing and his cross-correspondences is seeking to give us rigorous demonstration of them. If such exist, they crown Life's progress...

49. Look at my dick

50. Cock, Balls