Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Quotes
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975