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Bodily Quotes

The body's role in memory, fear, and effort.

This collection of bodily quotes describes a disciplined, active life shaped by careful routine, alongside old ailments that eventually fade into mere memory. For more on wellbeing, see our Health quotes.

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire...

Quotes by Laurel Clark

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

Quotes by Josh McDowell

We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought.

Quotes by Jessa Gamble

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive...

Quotes by Grover Norquist

Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.

Quotes by Gregory Benford

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.

Quotes by Emmitt Smith

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

Quotes by Elizabeth Strout

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

Quotes by E. F. Benson

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

Quotes by Deborah Eisenberg

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Quotes by Charles Darwin

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Quotes by Caspar David Friedrich

One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our...

Quotes by Bee Wilson

I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.

Quotes by Ash Sarkar

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the first quote say about an active life?
It describes decades of an active bodily and mental life shaped by a strong need for regularity and precision before eventual retirement.
Are health ailments discussed as ongoing concerns here?
No, one quote notes that old physical ailments have simply faded into the past, suggesting they were resolved or outgrown over time.
How is fear described physically in this topic?
One quote highlights how quickly fear becomes a bodily experience, describing rapid, almost breathless physical reactions.
Is golf mentioned as a physical activity here?
Yes, one quote wryly describes golf as a clumsy series of physical motions that somehow aims to end in something graceful.
How does this topic connect to Health quotes?
Since physical wellbeing runs through every quote here, our Health quotes are a natural companion read.

Other lines capture how physically real fear can feel, and describe golf as a clumsy series of physical motions aiming for a graceful outcome. Explore our Feel and Know quotes for related themes.