Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb.
– Robert A Berezin
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- I was coming together…limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity. – Sanober Khan
- Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering. – Roland Barthes
- Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. – Carl Sagan
- They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time. – Hannah Brencher
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Business is like a game and you play the game only in two ways. Either you play to Win or Play not to Lose – Qasid Parkar
- who ever play with play will cry with play – Bello Salihu
- You play with ice – you get cold.You play with fire – you get burnt.you play with me – you get lucky. – Anthony T Hincks
- But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you’re missing a limb when they’re gone. – Melanie Shankle
- Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb? – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? – William Wordsworth
- Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb. – Dan Sofer
- Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb. – Philip Brown
- The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness. – AG Howard
- It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. – Virginia Woolf
- It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality – Virginia Woolf
- In my mind I lead a phantom’s life. My neighbor makes me real. – Marty Rubin
- A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom – Jo Nesb
- A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars. – James Joyce
- It’s painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on. – Kenneth C Agudo
- Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. – John Lancaster Spalding
- Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to. – Claudia J Edwards
- The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway. – Erin Kellison
- You mean to tell me you’re mourning the loss of someone who never existed? – Taylor Nadeau
- Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
- When you complete yourself is when you can complete someone else. – Dominic Riccitello
- Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. – Leo Tolstoy
- You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool. – Kenneth L Higbee
- Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty. – Herman Melville
- She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity. – Ilona Andrews
- Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent. – Criss Jami
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
- Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We choose to remain angry. Someone else may have initiated the anger but we choose whether we remain in this state or not. – Avina Celeste
- Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
- The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is ‘success’ in mourning? – Julian Barnes