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Body Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
- Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
- Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with…
- The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb…
- In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been…
- For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
- The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
- Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes…
- The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
- Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
- The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
- And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
- And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
- I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit…
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
- Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you…
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