quotations about the body
She whose body's young and cool
Has no need of dancing-school.
DOROTHY PARKER
Salome's Dancing Lesson
The body is our general medium for having a world.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
Phenomenology of Perception
Who can put trust in strength of body?
CICERO
Tusculanarum
To what vulture shall this carcass be given?
MARTIAL
Epigrams
The beautiful body on the oblong bed
Beautiful as a sword, that has for hilt
Arms whitely crossed behind a silver head.
WINIFRED WELLES
Design for a Blade
My body is nothing without me.
TOM STOPPARD
Rock 'n' Roll
Since the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world, it is certain that a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Lectures and Biographical Studies
No more was seen the human form divine.
HOMER
Odyssey
My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key.
ARCADE FIRE
"My Body is a Cage", Neon Bible
Whether our bodies are burnt on the pyre or decompose with time matters not at all: nature finds room for them all in her gentle arms.
LUCAN
De Bello Civili
Would you be free from the restraint of your body? Live in it as if you were about to leave it.
SENECA
Epistulae ad Lucilium
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
WAYNE DYER
attributed, Activating the Superhuman
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
Sacred is the dust
Of this heaven-labour'd form, erect, divine!
This heaven-assum'd majestic robe of earth.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
I Sing the Body Electric
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
MARILYN MONROE
attributed, International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1984