O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Quotes
Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC