Archive

Quotes

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978