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156 Own Body quotes by 138 unique authors

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that… — J D Salinger
To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. — Paul Auster
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. — Leo Tolstoy
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only… — Anne Rice
You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and… — Tim O'Brien
I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened… — Arina Tanemura
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you… — Roland Barthes
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… — Milan Kundera
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest… — Jodi Picoult
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. — George Orwell
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms… — Nicole Krauss
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! — Louis Aragon
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to… — Jodi Picoult
He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully. — John Flanagan
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.… — Nora Roberts
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… — Jeanette Winterson
I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns… — Mathias Malzieu
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. — Miyamoto Musashi
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted… — Margaret Atwood
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things — Kazuo Ishiguro
Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin,… — Jose Saramago
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. — Haruki Murakami
I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. — Ernest Hemingway
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally… — C.S. Lewis

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