Quote by Andre Dubus III

“He’ll eat you alive, shit you out and then piss on his dump.”

— John Green

“He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses…

— Robert S. de Ropp

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“like he could devote his thoughts to something other than when he might get to sleep. Like his mind was huge and whirring and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“he has no more idea of exerting himself to overcome obstacles than he has of restraining his natural appetites; and these two things are…

— Anne Brontë

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

— Aldous Huxley

“But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be…

— E.M. Forster

“..he was the only one in the world who understood the secret living thing that dwelt in he pit of my stomach...the thing that…

— Belle Whittington

“This is why we must transcend our physical bodies. Because a body is always going to piss you off”

— Suzanne Morrison

“A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.”

— Elise Blackwell

“A beast like that rests; he does not die.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.”

— Herman Melville