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

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

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

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

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

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

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

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

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

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.