Severed Quotes

75 quotes by 69 authors

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;… — Virginia Woolf
Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed — Hamza Yusuf
Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME. — Kanye West
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
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods. — Janisse Ray
Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home. — Anodea Judith
...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and… — Robinson Jeffers
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems… — Paige Bradley
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally,… — Ivan Pavlov
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776,… — Robert Burchfield
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must… — Gregory Maguire
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman
A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. — Mitch Hedberg
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. — Quentin Tarantino
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed… — Frans de Waal
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. — Neil Gaiman

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