Quotes of Mutilation - somelinesforyou

“ Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ”

- Louis Mumford

“ The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us… ”

- Oscar Wilde
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