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Body Quotes by Milan Kundera
- When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,…
- But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of…
- Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
- She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
- The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after…
- She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
- For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
- and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and…
More Body Quotes
- 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
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle