The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Quotes
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978