Liver Quotes

• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  William James

  Life, Humorous, Philosophical

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• For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Heart, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Orlando”, p.149, Booklassic

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• Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

  Maya Angelou

  Love Life, Be Good

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Men, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Life loves the liver of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  1977 Interview in Black Scholar, Jan- Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

  George Allen

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Birthday, Age

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• I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Names, Alcoholics

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Birthday, Death

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• Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

  Herman Melville

  Judgement, Missionary, Enlightened

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, The Whale: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Taoism, Wish

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

  Amy Gerstler

  Heart, Jaundice

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.24, Penguin

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• Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

  William Shakespeare

  Love, May, Appetite

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409

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• A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Children, Philosophy

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

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• I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

  George Best

  Mines

  Referring to his liver transplant. In Scoring at Half Time (2003).

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• They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

  C. S. Lewis

  Eagles, Tears, Coward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

  Tom Waits

  Heart, Rivers, Drunk

  Song: Bad Liver And A Broken Heart

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• A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

  Art Buchwald

  Want, Nervous, Breakdown

  Art Buchwald (1977). “Down the Seine and up the Potomac with Art Buchwald”, Fawcett Books

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• A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

  Thomas Harris

  School, Littles, Bigs

  The Silence of the Lambs ch. 3 (1991)

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• My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Sea, Kidneys

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.90, Hamilton Books

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

  Richard Russo

  Graduation, Be Kind, Tire

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• Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Heart, Suffering

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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