Body - Quotes

Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.

Warhammer 40,000

Prayer cleanses the soul, but pain cleanses the body.

Warhammer 40,000

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

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 things you do with it. You are beautiful.

Stephenie Meyer

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Victor Hugo

I love you
like a room likes light,
like a soul its flame,
like the body peace.
I love you
like the dying love life.

Attila József

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Margaret Fuller

My heart sits on the twig of nothing,
its little body shivering, dumb.

Attila József

Wherever you go, the air
fills with delight, and grows more refined,
and like the halo around a saint
covers your body with the aura of light.

Mihály Babits

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau