O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Quotes
Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014