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12. “But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”
Marcel Proust
Pity, Body, Octopus Analogy, Meaningless Words, Emotional Isolation, Strange Existence
13. “It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.” Marcel Proust Illness, Body, Different Kingdom, Physical Chains, Self-Recognition, Mental Divide
21. “I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.” Sylvia Plath Mental Health, Silent Struggles, Unspoken Words, Body, Mind, Struggle
24. “Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. But it’s too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.” Herman Melville Body House, Universe Finished, Eyes Windows, Universe, Body, Eyes
Body Quotes by Famous Authors
12. “But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”
Marcel Proust Pity, Body, Octopus Analogy, Meaningless Words, Emotional Isolation, Strange Existence
13. “It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”
Marcel Proust Illness, Body, Different Kingdom, Physical Chains, Self-Recognition, Mental Divide
21. “I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
Sylvia Plath Mental Health, Silent Struggles, Unspoken Words, Body, Mind, Struggle
24. “Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. But it’s too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.”
Herman Melville Body House, Universe Finished, Eyes Windows, Universe, Body, Eyes
