Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Quotes
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Nothing 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, 1993The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797