Quotes
Quotes about Body
There is, for everybody, a first time. A psychedelic moment, as they say or used to say nowadays, an instant of recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities, a meaning for the term beauty.
A dream, yes, but for everyone the same. The thought that wove it never dropped a stitch. The absolute was everybody's pitch
There's always two sides to life, and I ask everybody to remember that
It is not enough for a novelist to fabricate a human soul; there must be a body as well, an an immediate space-time continuum for that body to rest or move in
It is not enough for a novelist to fabricate a human soul; there must be a body as well, and an immediate space-time continuum for that body to rest or move in
Nobody ought to think that he is worth writing about. This is especially true of professional writers. They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest.
Soul and body can never be fed together for all our pretence of the unity of love. For love is one word but many things; love is a unity only in the word
It is time to rise all above the body and live in a making soul
I can hardly move, sick not in my body but only in my soul, centre of my sinful earth
There are things that the soul will do to the body
I saw my paper as the body I once had, I longed towards it. I was fearful, though, of disfiguring it with blots and scratches
I was creating man afresh, planting him in a garden with clean white body and the innocent eyes of a deer. But he would not stay there: he must needs leap out to his plotting and blood-letting and sniggering nastiness
The foul wrong then lay beyond a man's own purposing; there was somewhere, outside time's very beginning, an infinite well of putridity from which body and mind alike were driven, by some force unseen and uncontrollable, to drink
He thought that the great white body of the world was set upon by an illness from beyond, gratuitous and incurable
The brain too is the body. It is a fine and cunning trelliswork, but we may eat brain as we eat feet and flanks. But there is one thing that is not to be eaten and that is the little fine saying I am I am I am
A bigger problem was to separate himself from his body - the hand worn to nothing, the lock of hair that fell into his eye, even the brain that scrurried with thoughts and words and images. It took long hours to die
It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and war is for armies
They were all characters in somebody's dream
All that pouring out of hysterical emotion - it has to attach to somebody
A diseased body is as tyrannical as any upstart dictator
The soul has a separate existence. It can ignore th body
Nobody comes back from the dead. Except in ghost stories
The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order
Hell is an emanation of God's justice. But we believe that his love is greater than his justice. Hell has to exist ... but there may be nobody in it
There's nobody more English than some of the French
