Bodily Quotes

265 quotes by 216 authors

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into… — Karlheinz Deschner
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is… — Henry M. Morris
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. — John Climacus
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would… — Joan of Arc
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Compton Mackenzie
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical… — Albert Schweitzer
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV.… — Ani DiFranco

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216 authors contributed a total of 265 Bodily Quotes, led by these top contributors: