The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Quotes
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170