Quotes about Bodies
Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.
- Marcus Aurelius
We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.
- Margaret Atwood
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
- St. Augustine
For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.
- Stephen Jay Gould
To talk of rational beings apart from man is as if we attempted to talk of heavy beings apart from bodies.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
- Florence Nightingale
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
- John Owen
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
- William Law
Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk about love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.
- Alice Walker
Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk bout love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. It don't surprise me you love Shug Avery, he say. I have love Shug Avery all my life.
- Alice Walker
ALLEGER (ALLE'GER) n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.
- Samuel Johnson
But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?
- John Donne