Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Quotes
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919