And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Quotes
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993One’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 BCIf I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949