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)

    “You really were a panther, a wild-cat,
    who tore me limb from limb;
    my thanks for that.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The Harmless Torturers. In the Bad Old Days, each torturer inflicted severe pain on one victim. Things have now changed. Each of the thousand torturers presses a button, thereby turning the switch once on each of the thousand instruments. The victims suffer the same severe pain. But none of the torturers makes any victim’s pain perceptibly worse.”
    —Derek Parfit (b. 1943)