Quote by Mary Butts Download Open image ““the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena”” — Mary Butts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.” — Megan Jayne Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Violence. My body has learned to love violence, and my mind imagines terrible things” — D.S. Wrights Copy Share Image
“Our bodies knock and we pretend like we can't hear They knock to tell us to rest to slow down They knock We do… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.” — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Out of all human emotions, none is more primitive, and has a longer lasting effect on the body, than hatred.” — Kei Ohishi Copy Share Image
“Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“This is why we must transcend our physical bodies. Because a body is always going to piss you off” — Suzanne Morrison Copy Share Image
“When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The thought of superhuman beings with human temptations and flaws sends a chill through me.” — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
“When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
