Body Quotes by Famous Authors

3. “When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.”

4. “Man’s spiritual trajectory ends in the rubbish heap of his own mother-born body.”

5. “I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.”

6. “Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.”

7. “The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.”

8. “Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.”

Steven Wright

9. “I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.”

Steven Wright

10. “On the other hand, you have different fingers.”

Steven Wright

11. “If our body sits still, it decays. If our mind sits still, it grows.”

Ankur Warikoo

12. “In a cell like mine you very quickly become aware of your body. You can grow to hate your body. And your body is all you have: this was the curious thought that kept floating up through my rage.”

V.S. Naipaul

13. “I wondered that clothes, even the apparently revealing tropical clothes I had seen on Yvette, should have concealed so much, should have broken the body up, as it were, into separate parts and not really hinted at the splendour of the whole.”

V.S. Naipaul

14. “Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.”

Ramakrishna

15. “As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.”

Ramakrishna

16. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

17. “When you have a stomach ache you don’t tell your stomach to go away.”

18. “When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.”

19. “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”

20. “Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.”

21. “If the body were to take the soul to court for the pains and suffering it had endured throughout its life, then if he were to be on the jury for the case he would gladly cast his vote against the soul inasmuch as it had destroyed some parts of the body by negligence or dissipated them by drunkenness, and had ruined and ravaged other parts by its pursuit of pleasures – just as he would blame the careless user if a tool or utensil were in a bad condition.”

Democritus

22. “Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.”

Democritus

23. “You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.”

Leonard Cohen

24. “A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”

Leonard Cohen

25. “Your body will never be familiar.”

Leonard Cohen

26. “I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.”

Thomas Merton

27. “Ninety percent of the people don’t realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they’re not aware that it’s the body, something they should be in tune with.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

28. “The body is very important, but the mind is more important than the body.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

29. “For by no wisdom can natural weakness of the body be removed. That which is implanted and inborn can be toned down by training, but not overcome.”

Seneca

30. “Embodied cognition is the science linked with the ancient science of mantra-tantra-yantra systems. It deals with body-mind and ego simultaneously as an integrated system. It encompasses biological, psychological and cultural context together.”

31. “Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.”

32. “Yoga is establishing connection with the every cell of the body and with every soul of the cosmos.”

33. “This very body is indeed Kashi, the illumined divine field of cosmic energy and pure consciousness.”

34. “Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in meditating on your own inner body.”

35. “To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body.”

36. “Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.”

37. “When you unlock the mysteries of the 114 chakras, you will truly realize that you are not the body and not even the mind. You are the eternal spirit.”

38. “Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.”

39. “The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

40. “Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.”

41. “If incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.”

42. “If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.”

43. “All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

44. “If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”

Sophocles

45. “This book is dedicated with tenderness and respect to the blameless vulva.”

Alice Walker

46. “Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.”

Henry Ward Beecher

47. “If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.”

48. “Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.”

49. “This is because the way of the physical is circumscribed. The body has only so much of a role to play in your life. If you try to stretch it to all of your life, you will suffer because you are trying to create a falsehood. Life has a million ingenious ways to bend you, break you, knead you, and grind you. Nothing.”

50. “The first thing is to stand up and be sensible. To handle this body, to handle this mind, to handle these emotions, things that are within you right now, to handle them sensibly.”