The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Quotes
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985