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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967