Quotes about Body
Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed, which declares his dignity, and the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
— John Milton
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
— CS Lewis
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
— Pope John Paul II
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.
— Albert Einstein
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Objection 1: It would seem that light is a body. For Augustine says (De Lib. Arb. iii, 5) that "light takes the first place among bodies."Therefore light is a body. Objection 2: Further, the Philosopher says (Topic. v, 2) that "light is a species of fire." But fire is a body, and therefore so is light.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.
— Virginia Woolf
There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated.
— Virginia Woolf
Her hand cut a trail in the sea, as her mind made the green swirls and streaks into patterns and, numbed and shrouded, wandered in imagination in that underworld of waters where the pearls stuck in clusters to white sprays, where in the green light a change came over one's entire mind and one's body shone half transparent enveloped in a green cloak.
— Virginia Woolf
Her hand cut a trail in the sea, as her mind made the green swirls and streaks into patterns and, numbed and shrouded, wandered in imagination in that underworld of waters were the pearls stuck in clusters to white sprays, where in the green light a change came over one's entire mind and one's body shine half transparent enveloped in a green cloak.
— Virginia Woolf