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Body Quotes by James Joyce
- Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived…
- But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
- When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had…
- [A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
- Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
- I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of…
- He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him…
- I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there…
- What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
- My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires
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