The Phantom Pain Quotes

#1. I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!

Hideo Kojima

#2. But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#4. Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Harold Evans

#5. 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

#6. Economy is the art of making the most of life.

Gary Becker

#7. No one creates a double-edged sword without the intent of using both sides.

Priscilla Vogelbacher

#8. It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

J.R. Ward

#9. I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

Alan Moore

#10. A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Jef Raskin

#11. I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

David Bowie

#12. There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

Susan Denning

#13. Let go of what you think you know. Something amazing happens when you let God and trust.

Tammy L. Kubasko

#14. 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

#15. I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

Dick Dale

#16. Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

Marie Lu

#17. My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!"

"Hush John," Florida said. "That's only phantom pain."

"Is it real?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "All pain is real.

Lucia Berlin

#18. Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again.
Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that's been amputated. [p.244]

Beth Revis

#19. 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

#20. Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. Of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up
and the clock wants to be set going
(how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one)
amputated limbs feel phantom pain

Katarina Mazetti

#22. Every so often I was overwhelmed by a phantom pain that cut through me like a knife. I was certain that if I looked down I would find blood all over, like the knife I once held in my hands, but it was all in my mind.

Gail Tsukiyama

#23. And even though I'd cried in my bed every night since, feeling his phantom arms around me, it had been worth eight hours Saturday night. The pleasure then was worth the pain now.

Nicole Williams

#24. I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Noreena Hertz

#25. Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.

Steve Maraboli

#26. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Antonya Nelson

#27. So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some different permutation and shape; perhaps the body is this hypersensitive, revengeful entity, a ledger book, a warehouse of remembered slights and cruelties.

Thrity Umrigar