A Quote by Oscar Wilde

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oscar Wilde

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Body Drink My Soul Separate Soul

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Michael Shermer

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Judith Guest

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

Plato

My body is precious and not separate from my soul.

Sark

The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse. The soul is immaterial and distinct from the body.

J.P. Moreland

I drink to keep body and soul apart.

Seamus Heaney

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Jack London

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Andrew Klavan

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

Saadi

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

Meister Eckhart

My body is weird. I can't drink strong drinks. I can't even drink cough medicine - I used to cry when my mom forced me. I don't drink alcohol.

Rahim Moore

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

David Novak

Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body's members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.