Amputation Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I…
— Leslie West
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York…
— Terry Fox
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When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them…
— Philip Graham Ryken
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present.…
— Camilla Gibb
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept…
— Sam Kean
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
— Edward Gorey
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
— Marge Piercy
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --…
— Diane Ackerman
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
— C.S. Lewis
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Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
— Gail Caldwell
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Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness.…
— Meg Cabot
Who Wrote These Amputation Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Amputation Quotes as follows: