A Quote by Francis of Paola

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

Francis of Paola

Quote Topics

Arrow Injury Poison Recollection Rusty Soul

Quote Author

Francis of Paola
Saint
March 27, 1416 - April 2, 1507

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Madonna Ciccone

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Harmeet Singh

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

John Dryden

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

Hermann Hesse

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Scott Westerfeld

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

Francis Quarles

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.

James Purdy

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Vladimir Nabokov

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

Greg Rusedski

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.