"The death of a beloved is an amputation." — C.S. Lewis
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More Amputation Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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…
— Unknown Author
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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