No Body Quotes
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.
The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.
Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.
For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.