Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Quotes
If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Carnal 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, 1797Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920