The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
I can snap your spine like a toothpick.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.
I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
For like a year, even after I retired, my ear would just bleed. There was just some scar tissue on it that tore open so many times that it just started bleeding all the time. It's rough on the wife, she has to keep washing the sheets again and again.
Unzip your fly. There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it.
Califano had just reported to the President that he had successfully negotiated a deal with a key senator.
When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
The thing that should be used very freely is the lash, for it is bodily pain the native fears. He fears nothing else.
My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
I have dangerous bones in my body.
When you sprain an ankle, you're kind of off-balance a bit.
You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!
I’d rather you have my pecker cut off.
Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!
Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]
Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.