Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Quotes
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Every 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’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003