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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596