Amputation Quotes

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. (Margaret Atwood)
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It was an old passion,” he said. "I haven't touched a violin for months. I didn't know what that would be like.” "What is it like?” she asked. He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. "An amputation,” he whispered. View quote
Octavia Butler
We disagreed with Zinoviev and Kamenev because we knew that the policy of amputation was fraught with great dangers for the Party, that the method of amputation, the method of blood-letting - and they demanded blood - was dangerous, infectious: today you amputate one limb, tomorrow another, the day after tomorrow a third - what will we have left in the Party? View quote
Joseph Stalin
Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is. View quote
Wole Soyinka