Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Quotes
My 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, 1949One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCThe world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014