A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I had nerve damage. It was going to lead to amputation. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation… — Rudolf Breuss Copy Share Image
stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I have heard many people say, who have lost a loved one, that in some ways it is like learning to live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm amputated a couple inches above where my kneecaps were. The first set of prosthetics that I had were nothing more than… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“Everybody's amputated in some way or another, Shiloh. We lose loved ones, cut off memories forever, end relationships. Go down paths we… — Jennifer Rogers Spinola Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My left leg had to be amputated from below the knee immediately to prevent gangrene from setting in. I was losing blood… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
At 70, my late father, Peter, underwent a foot amputation after surgical complications. There were suggestions that at his age being in… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my… — Leslie West Copy Share Image
My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
