Quotes of: Body Keyword

Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

The Host

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

The Handmaid's Tale

My body is on fire, aching and clawing at me to set it free. It wants to come out to play alright. It wants recess with Ian. He’s everything I’m not, and I love it.

I'm Holding On

Jacksonville has sunny days 80% of the year. That’s probably why 20% of my body is always untanned. Who knew that the fraction 20% is shaped like a Speedo?

I am Jacksonville

You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.

It Looked a Lot Like Love

At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.

Instinct

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

The Illusion of Separateness

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