A Quote by Anne Sexton

The body is a damn hard thing to kill. — © Anne Sexton
The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
You've got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I'm a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.
We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough.
...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.
The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.
There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.
Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
I play really hard. I put my body on the line every damn practice. Every day in the games. That's my passion. That's how I give to the game.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.
You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
I've always pushed my body way too hard, gone days without eating at 20,000 feet, and caught every exotic bug that didn't kill me.
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