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Body Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest…
- We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain…
- It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't…
- Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
- Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
- My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It…
- The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
- The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
- And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...
- What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
- The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I…
- When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and…
- Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred…
- Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
- When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly…
- So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are…
- Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the…
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