Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Quotes
The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978