Bodily Quotes
265 Bodily quotes by 211 unique authors
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Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness…
— Osamu Dazai
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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
— Charles Dickens
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And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should…
— Julia Quinn
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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would…
— Michael Pollan
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So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that…
— John Green
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He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he…
— N. T. Wright
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A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up…
— John Green
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We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed…
— Marya Hornbacher
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The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that…
— J. G. Holland
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I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the…
— Michael Jackson
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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…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.
— La Meri
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
— Charles Darwin
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Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my…
— Unknown Author
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Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does…
— Grover Norquist
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as…
— Randall Kennedy
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Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver…
— Michael Leunig
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You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made…
— Suzanne Somers
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to…
— Edward Frederic Benson
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Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
— Tommy Armour
Who Wrote These Bodily Quotes
211 authors contributed a total of 265 Bodily Quotes, led by these top contributors: