It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Quotes
If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855