O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Quotes
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993