As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Quotes
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605