3,080 Quotes About Body



  • Author Durga Chew-Bose
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    Sick for my body before. Before I’d ever noticed I was in possession of one. Before fulllengths. Before I knew anything about valleyed collarbones, a stomach’s folds, smooth legs, small wrists.

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  • Author Colleen Hoover
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    I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollowinside.I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies arefull of—bones and muscles and blood and organs—yet my chest sometimesfeels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echoinside of me.

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  • Author Nikos Kazantzakis
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    He opened his shirt and lowered his trousers. 'Bring the light over!' he ordered. I held the lamp close to the thin, tanned body. What with deep scars, bullet and sword marks, his body was like a collander. 'Now look at the other side!' He turned round and showed me his back. 'Not a scratch on the back, you see. Do you understand? Now take the lamp back.

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  • Author Carmen Maria Machado
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    Bodies are terrifying; they’re powerful and fragile, bloody and imperfect, uncanny, impressionable vehicles that carry our minds from birth until death. And of course they’re inherently haunted. Haunting is a kind of impression; a lingering effect from a physical act like a shoeprint or a cloud of perfume left in the air. In the same way, bodies carry trauma and choices of our ancestors. Our DNAs are blueprints of the past.

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