Quote by The Dhammapada

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head…

— Thomas Ligotti

“the body is only a puppet to the mind”

— Anonymous

“I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle. The precision…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“I hover over myself Watching. Mind and body separated, Each in control As though there are two puppeteers Working the strings of my marionette…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing…

— Oscar Wilde

“Within, I saw the hanging puppets swinging and the wooden wheel spinning with its hideous spinning dolls and in the center of it all…

— Kate Michael The Devil's Game

“Seeing the body as matter and mechanism is the flip side to easing the most profound human suffering.”

— Paul Kalanithi

What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march…

— Kate Langley Bosher

“My soul, I’ve found, has puppet strings to make me droop or give me wings. And music is the puppeteer that turns my ear…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food and sex…

— Haruki Murakami

“It is possible to be a puppet on a string without fully realising it.”

— Steven Redhead