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

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

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

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

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

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

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

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

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

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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