There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Quotes
Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967