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If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860