To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Quotes
The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947