O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Quotes
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947