Severed Quotes
75 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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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
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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
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I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.
— Kanye West
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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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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
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Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.
— Anodea Judith
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...[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
— Edmond Jabes
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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
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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
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A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.
— Mitch Hedberg
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
— Quentin Tarantino
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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
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It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Severed Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 75 Severed Quotes, led by these top contributors: