Amputation Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
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
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
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
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
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
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,â€”a good finger,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy
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
...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
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
Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty. — Megan Whalen Turner
The death of a beloved is an amputation. — C.S. Lewis
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation. — Gail Caldwell
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: