Body Quotes

If you are powerfully embracing your physical body and your sexuality, you are living fully in your humanness and that is as spiritual as it gets.

I’d rather suffer in silence than be subjected to deafening stares. I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship with my body, no one can see the bruises.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

My body aches for you and I think it always will.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

Deep breathing changes the chemistry of the body by bringing oxygen into the tissue.

Burnt mirror, smeared glass. Do you like what you see? If my body is a temple, then my poetry is the darkest vestry. My mouth is a chalice, and these words are sacramental.