The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Quotes
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919