Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Quotes
Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855