Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Quotes
Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009