The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Quotes
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975