Quotes About Amputation

#1. What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61

Abraham Verghese

#2. The death of a beloved is an amputation.

C.S. Lewis

#3. This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

Gabriel Marcel

#4. Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

Megan Whalen Turner

#5. Kumar and I ended up stuffing tissue paper up our nostrils, but agreed that if we had to come down again more drastic action would be justified - like amputation.

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the harder it is to recover.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck.

Evan Esar

#8. I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

Leslie West

#9. It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.

C.S. Quinn

#10. As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising from his heart the impulse to run, to cower, to let the man bleed to death rather than face the horror of saving him. The amputation had left both patients lighter. p 121-122

Anthony Marra

#11. Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

Gail Caldwell

#12. It's like putting a band-aid on an amputation!

Natasha Anders

#13. In the case of smokers, the abuse leads to death, sicknesses, cancer, amputation, loss of all kinds.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. It's nothing personal, but anyone who engages me must inevitably experience amputation.

Reki Kawahara

#15. Then I'll say that I once cut the living, beating heart out of my own chest," she said, her voice devoid of its usual flippancy. "I survived that amputation. I'll survive this one.

Tiffany Reisz

#16. This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me lame for a time.

Julie Berry

#17. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

David Mitchell

#18. The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
of the hands.

L. M. Boyd

#19. But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.

Jim Butcher

#20. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#21. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.

Emma Donoghue

#23. When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them confess their sins and find forgiveness in Christ, and then welcome them back into the fellowship of the church.

Philip Graham Ryken

#24. My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all ...

Jim Crace

#25. One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Merle Shain

#26. There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.

Trudi Canavan

#27. I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Wole Soyinka

#28. We watch the chef slice eel and octopus, delicate operations of dismemberment and amputation. For some reason it makes me think of poetry.

Jessica Martinez

#29. To my mind, healing means returning
a malfunctioning human body to full
unrestricted function, not to remove
parts of it by operation or amputation

Rudolf Breuss

#30. A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

#31. All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Marge Piercy

#32. Upon seeing the third and final table I realized that most of the people listed would most likely be dead, or come out of these qualifying races with severed limbs of as Revaarn liked to say 'Loose a limb no problem, it'll be amputated and replaced with a robotic one.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#33. Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.

Kathryn Miller Haines