Bills Quote by Plutarch

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

— Gary Shteyngart

The body is what reminds us on a daily basis that we're human. The body defies us, it betrays us, we have to struggle…

— Junot Diaz

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Some folks are born different, Nance. They are born on the outside of things, with skin a little a thinner, eyes a little keener…

— Hannah Kent

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

— John Donne

The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the…

— Stephen Mitchell

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not…

— Marion Woodman

“If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body—everything would be seen not as a fluttering of impalpable…

— Italo Calvino

Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefather's bones.

— Luther Standing Bear

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty,…

— Nikola Tesla

“So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking…

— Osho

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from…

— Malgorzata Szumowska