Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Quotes
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Flesh 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, 1961Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883