Quotes of: Body-image Keyword

It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.

The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

Jacob's Room

Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

Katie in Love

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

The Round House

For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

A Room of One's Own

The body never lies. It's your spiritual tuning fork.

The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark

My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

The Ritual

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

The Sorrows of an American

He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.

Steady Beat

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

Slow Decay

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

She

Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.

Sleepless

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Meditations

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

Mortal Engines

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

The Monster of Florence