3,080 Quotes About Body




  • Author Yukio Mishima
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    For ideas are, in the long run, essentially foreign to human existence; and the body — receptacle of the involuntary muscles, of the internal organs and circulatory system over which it has no control — is foreign to the spirit, so that it is even possible for people to use the body as a metaphor for ideas, both being something quite alien to human existence as such.

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  • Author Sally Rooney
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    My body felt completely disposable, like a placeholder for something more valuable. I fantasized about taking it apart and lining my limbs up side by side to compare them.

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  • Author Misbah Khan
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    Your body is an identity that could identify you in the world, but the soul circumscribes the galaxy, that puts you apart from the world.

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