Body Quotes

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

The eye – it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where’er they be, against or with our will.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

Anatomy is destiny.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

You could see in an instant that she had been the local good-time girl since about 1931. She had ‘ready for sex’ written all over her face, but ‘better bring a paper bag’ written all over her body.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.