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Body Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out…
- I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,…
- To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to…
- There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody…
- And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair…
- I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was…
- It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in…
- My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
- I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine