# Quotes about the body - Quotes: 10 - Authors: 9 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body ## Quotes > I always think they're rather charming-looking, the Burmese. They have such splendid bodies! Just think what sights you'd see in England if people went about half naked as they do here! [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Burmese Days](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/burmese-days.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/burmese-days/i-always-think.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you. [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [The Old Man and the Sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-old-man-and-the-sea/you-did-not.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! [C. S. Lewis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis.md) · [The Screwtape Letters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters/much-of-the.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > "Why!" said Huxter, suddenly, "that's not a man at all. It's just empty clothes. Look! You can see down his collar and the linings of his clothes. I could put my arm—"He extended his hand; it seemed to meet something in mid-air, and he drew it back with a sharp exclamation. "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation. "The fact is, I'm all here: head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I'm invisible. It's a confounded nuisance, but I am. That's no reason why I should be poked to pieces by every stupid bumpkin in Iping, is it?" [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The Invisible Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man/why-said-huxter.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > To me it is quite credible that the Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development of brain and hands (the latter giving rise to the two bunches of delicate tentacles at last) at the expense of the rest of the body. Without the body the brain would, of course, become a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The War of the Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds/to-me-it-is-quite.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/my-body-was.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Ulysses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/ulysses/he-kissed-the.md) Topics: [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md), [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > The Russians had a great taste for her owing to her embonpoint. [Emile Zola](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola.md) · [Nana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/nana.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/nana/the-russians-had.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [De Anima](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/de-anima.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/de-anima/it-is-not.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md) > "We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies." [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Heartbreak House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house/we-know-now.md) Topics: [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md)