Phantom Limb Pain

Famous quotes containing the words phantom, limb and/or pain:

    “She was a phantom of delight
    When first she gleamed upon my sight;
    A lovely apparition, sent
    To be a moment’s ornament;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “should some limb of the devil
    Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
    That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
    Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
    Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)