Quotes of: Heavenly-bodies Keyword

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

A Child Called "It"

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Of Christmas Present

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Collected Poems

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

Cinnamon Rain

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

The Concubine's Tattoo

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

Death of the Body

I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.

A Dom is Forever

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

Dagon

Taylor Durham was in a gay man’s heaven, with all those tight bodies swaying back and forth to the music. Grinding together in harmony.

Dark Indiscretions

I don't want to forget my origin: I'm an eternal spirit placed in a body put on this earth for only a short time to fulfill a purpose.

Eve of Awakening

I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.

Everly After

Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.

Emotionally Compromised

Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.

Emotionally Compromised

There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

Far Away Home

I choose this body just as it is.

Full: How one woman found yoga, eased her inner hunger, and started loving herself

For everyone has a destiny. A destiny not found in the pages of a hefty book; a destiny not found in heaven or in hell. No, our destinies are embedded in our bodies.

Flaws of Oblivion

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

Fire

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

The First Salute

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich