There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961