Body Vs Mind Quotes

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“They had been brought up in a tradition that told them in one way or another that the life of the mind and the life of the senses were separate and, indeed, inimical; they had believed, without ever having really thought about it, that one had to be chosen at some expense of the other. That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time.”
― Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria – A Revelatory Medical Memoir and Biography of Health Anxiety