Body quotes

Body

4.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

4.7K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside body — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Quote collection

Body quotes (page 65 of 236)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Body

"We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies."

Read quote 3 likes
Body

"So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation."

Read quote 3 likes
Margaret Thatcher Politician
Body

"(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.""

Read quote 3 likes
Body

"I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time."

Read quote 3 likes
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Body

"During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman."

Read quote 3 likes
George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Body

"The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything."

Read quote 3 likes
George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Body

"People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body."

Read quote 3 likes
George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Body

"Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive."

Read quote 3 likes