Bodily Needs Quotes

The belly comes before the soul.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

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

They say the body is 70 percent water, and you need that water for a reason.

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.

Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.