Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Quotes
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961