Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Quotes
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596There 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, 1949Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883