Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Quotes
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Carnal 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. 1947Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949