“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”

— Oscar Wilde

Last update Sept. 27, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I drink to separate my body from my soul." by Oscar Wilde?

Oscar Wilde photo

Oscar Wilde812

Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Related quotes

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296

“My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Voces (1943)

“Saying that what we call our “selves” consist only of our bodies and that reason, soul, and love arise only from the body, is like saying that what we call our body is equivalent to the food that feeds the body. It is true that my body is only made up of digested food and that my body would not exist without food, but my body is not the same as food. Food is what the body needs for life, but it is not the body itself. The same thing is true of my soul. It is true that without my body there would not be that which I call my soul, but my soul is not my body. The soul may need the body, but the body is not the soul.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 12

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

“Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

La femme ne sait pas séparer l'âme du corps.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

“My body is such that I remain sane even after drinking all my buddies under the table.”

Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010) USSR politician

Denying if alcohol effects any of his decision. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8060046/Gennady-Yanayev.html

“52. To separate the body from the soul is the privilege of only of the One who has joined them together. But to separate the soul from the body lies as well in the power of the man who pursues virtue. For our Fathers gave to the meditation of death and to the flight from the body a spiritual name: anachoresis”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

withdrawal
The Praktikos

“And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.”

George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era

St. 12. <br class="br"> Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

Source: Drums of Autumn

“So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.”

Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author

Related topics