Physical Identity Quotes

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

Refuse to let an old person move into your body.

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

I am all athlete, and that's important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.

Your body will never be familiar.

I see bodies as individual things.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.