#nerve

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#end #nerve #pain #marriage

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least. ↗

— Jane Austen

#hysteria #irony #nerves #sarcasm #respect

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#granted #greatness #taken #taken for granted #unnerved

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #begin #dry #eyes #fail

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#events #great #irritate #make #me

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#else #half #i #nerves

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creatures #little #machine #man #mysteries