Phantom Limb Quotes

#1. You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#2. Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.

Robert A Berezin

#3. The thing is, you can cut off a couple passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you'll start to feel phantom limb pain.

Austin Kleon

#4. It would hurt someone normal," I whispered. "I'm not normal. It isn't like a phantom limb, something you had, used, needed and missed when it was gone. I never had that. I never had love. Devotion. Loyalty. You can't miss something you've never had.

Kristen Ashley

#5. She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Sarah Dunn

#6. I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can't believe I'm here without her.- on losing her best friend

Nora Ephron

#7. She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

Amy Bloom

#8. I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was.

Sophie Jordan

#9. Local grandmas came in and out of our clinic bringing homemade cookies and fudge, because nothing soothes phantom limb pain better than a homemade brownie.

Adele Levine

#10. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

Rajneesh

#11. She had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.

Elizabeth Goudge

#12. But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice. But certain moments were like reaching for something with a hand that wasn't there.

Carrie Vaughn

#13. The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

John Wesley

#14. Dejate querer. Let yourself be loved.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. You don't limp at all. Your recovery is going well."
"Yes." Though whether someone ever fully recovered from losing a limb, he didn't know. He sure as hell hadn't. It had been five years, and still there were days when the pain in his nonexistent leg was enough to drive him out of his mind.

Laura Oliva

#16. The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.

Stanley Hauerwas

#17. Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

Jihad Eltabey

#18. In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

Amy Klobuchar

#19. David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

Ishmael Reed

#20. You're taking classes? That's great. Crime scene etiquette, perhaps?

Kim Harrison

#21. Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

Bryant H. McGill

#22. Holden's thoughts: "I left my house not quite sure what happened. I should have never let Baker and Liv become friends. Should have know they would team up on me. Now, I was suddenly the errand boy -- that was Baker's job. Damn it, I hated Christmas.

Liz Schulte

#23. Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels from others.

John O'Donohue

#24. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Aidan Quinn

#25. I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.

Shantel VanSanten