Top 75 Fester Quotes
#1. If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won't just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.
Elizabeth Lesser
#2. Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
Lyman Abbott
#3. Time heals all wounds. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali. It's been said time and time again, but what they don't talk about are the jagged scars left behind. What they don't tell you is that sometimes, when ignored, the wounds fester
J.M. Darhower
#4. God knows our crooked places that need to be made straight, the wounds in our hearts that fester for years unhealed, the broken pieces of our lives that seem beyond repair. And He who is the author of miracles has infinite desire as well as power to heal them all.
Marianne Williamson
#5. My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.
Mary Manin Morrissey
#6. Some secrets buried away in boxes are peacefully forgotten, just as we hope they'll be. But some refuse to stay in their boxes, popping out at the worst possible times. And then there are those ... that linger and fester, gnawing away from the inside out.
Jeanne Birdsall
#8. We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244)
Edie Wadsworth
#9. As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.
Compton Mackenzie
#10. Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
Brent Weeks
#11. What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
Bruno Bettelheim
#12. Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.
Sue Patton Thoele
#13. The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
Alice Sebold
#14. Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail.
Bob Thurber
#15. A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West
#17. Watch-see, Holy One, my grave-rats will kill-kill all dead-things. We show-tell Fester-rats how to fight. Show-tell why Fester-rats should stay true to Horned One.
C.L. Werner
#18. The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#19. A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.
Susan Crandall
#20. And you don't even know my family. We're like rabies, we fester, make you go crazy, and most of the time, my mother is foaming at the mouth. So please tell me your family is like a heart attack.a nice, quick death instead of long term torture.
Inda Herwood
#21. Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
Jacqueline Carey
#22. Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.
Lee Strobel
#23. Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers - vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
Ayelet Waldman
#25. Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
Ruben Papian
#26. I much condole with you on your late loss ... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;
Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.
Erasmus Darwin
#27. It's the things I might have said that fester.
Clemence Dane
#28. If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
Madeleine L'Engle
#29. The words come out harsh, raw. That's all I have. The wounds he gave me don't heal but fester.
Marata Eros
#30. That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian ... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?
Dennis Miller
#31. His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester.
John Steinbeck
#32. A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
Dennis Potter
#33. Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth
Pam Farrel
#34. Once it becomes a secret, it's hard to let it out. If you don't keep it inside to begin with, it doesn't get the chance to fester and rot. So, honesty is my policy.
C.M. Stunich
#35. I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty. Bruises fade, but words like that fester.
Cristin Terrill
#36. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Karen Armstrong
#37. Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade
John Walter Bratton
#38. Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Peter Kreeft
#39. Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
Karen Armstrong
#40. A woman did not feel jealousy if her emotions were not engaged. And a wise man did not let it fester.
C.L. Wilson
#41. All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature, such as the shy man is ever cursed by, fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic.
Jerome K. Jerome
#42. On writing...
"It's a walk into the darkest corners of my imagination where my nightmares fester until something living and breathing escapes onto the screen of my laptop." JET
J.E. Taylor
#43. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney Harris
#44. Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.
Mary Balogh
#45. The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.
Jim Butcher
#46. There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.
Lauren Oliver
#47. Long before our words go wrong, our hearts are the place in which they fester and brew.
Anonymous
#48. She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester.
Jenny Han
#49. Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
Jacqueline Carey
#50. When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip ... allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.
T.F. Hodge
#51. She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?
Sherry Thomas
#52. An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.
Joe Abercrombie
#53. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.
Tom Schulman
#54. It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#55. All girls have sex with a stranger fantasies and fantasies played out are healthier than those that have been left to fester and go mouldy. When we look back, we don't regret the things we have done, only the things left undone, the things we wanted to do and never did.
Chloe Thurlow
#56. It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger
#57. When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.
Susan L. Taylor
#58. the past would only fester and eat away at us if we tried to hold on to it too tightly.
Renee Carlino
#59. I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.
Dannie Abse
#60. If you can't forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.
T.M. Gaouette
#61. Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your life what you need. Don't expect people to read your mind. It only leads to disappointment and frustration. Empower them to empower you!
Jillian Michaels
#62. Eddie made a half-turn in his seat to face her. "So, what did you think of our hosts?"
She chuckled. "I think they could be not-too-distant cousins of the Addams Family."
"With Paul as a fuzzy Uncle Fester," Eddie laughed.
Hunter Shea
#63. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Preeti Shenoy
#64. The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?
Terry Tempest Williams
#65. Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
Jonas Gahr Store
#66. Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#67. Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point ... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
Darrell Issa
#68. The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
Anne Perry
#69. My mother always said that you should share your troubles. If you let them out, then they are less likely to burden you, whereas if you keep them inside they fester your blood and taint your soul. (Emily)
Kinley MacGregor
#70. I have often found that bad news is best told quickly, before it has time to fester.
Manda Collins
#71. And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.
Robyn Davidson
#72. Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
George R R Martin
#74. Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
Rohinton Mistry
#75. Vaccines are little pieces of bacteria or viruses injected into the body to give the immune system an education. They work by ramping up your own defensive system so that you're ready to fight the bacteria or virus upon first contact, without becoming sick first.
Rene Fester Kratz
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