Actual Bodily Harm

Famous quotes containing the words actual, bodily and/or harm:

“The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.”
—Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)

“No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)