It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Quotes
The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCAs the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935