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Body Quotes by Victor Hugo
- What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and…
- Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust…
- In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
- Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
- Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them…
- As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes…
- There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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