Body Theme

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

I hate a cramp. It is a treachery of one’s own body.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

There is no devil and no hell. Your soul will be dead even sooner than your body; therefore, fear nothing more!

There is more reason, sanity and intelligence in your body than in your best wisdom.

The conception and its existence are two sides, distinct yet united, like soul and body. The body is the same life as the soul, and yet the two can be named independently. A soul without a body would not be a living thing, and vice versa. Thus the visible existence of the conception is its body, just as the body obeys the soul which produced it.

The body, love, death, these three are just one.

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye so, a nighean? True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled—yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed.