Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Quotes
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947One’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 BCWhat are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883