“My body is foreign to me that body that sustains me and will, ultimately, kill me.”
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
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Imre Kertész 61
Hungarian writer 1929–2016Related quotes
“My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.”
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Voces (1943)

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Source: Leaves of Grass

“My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.”

“He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.”
Remarks to the press after meeting Secretary of State for Transport Norman Fowler (18 June 1981), quoted in Citizen Ken (1984) by John Carvel, p. 107.

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
Variant: Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!
Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”