Home / Topics / Festering Quotes

Festering Quotes

Browse 30 quotes about Festering.

Related topics

Festering Quotes

“Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....”

Imagination Silence Memory Avoidance Festering

Book:Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.”

Earth Becoming Ocean Caves Extinction Merry Gravy Festering

Author:Anne Sexton

“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”

Men Heart Stills Asks Jesus Sin Creatures Letting Go Hatred Fellows Forgiving Burning Confession Grudge Festering

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”

“Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.”

Happens Grief Emotion Healing Wounds Honestly Festering

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.”

Doe Pain Causes Victim Harm Wounds Going Away Offenders Festering

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.”

Humor Funny Modern Dangerous Computer Program Horse Useless Over You Software Worms Viruses Microsoft Swamps Cyberspace Trojans Trojan Horse Festering

Author:Dave Barry

“Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?”

War Whole Social Minutes Why Not Dictator Poland Lords And Ladies Festering

Book:Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)

“I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.”

Thinking Years Book Ideas Ends House Process Simple Projects Finished Get Back Disgusting Elimination Back To Work Festering

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.”

Thinking Men Way Mind Different Government Young My Own My Family Blame Angry Miserable Corporations Different Ways Young Man Punk Another Way Punk Rock Rockers Festering

Author:Mark Coleman

“In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.”

Society Clean Wounds Neighborhood Cleaning Bandages Festering

Author:Ed Koch

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Feelings Turns Hurt Break Pieces Tricky Festering

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

Thinking Believe Silence Silly Implicit Festering

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.”

Enough Evil Felt Land Mines Healthy Size Holes Granted Decent Sand Starving Yeast Took For Granted Decent Life Festering

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.”

People Knows Way Age Able Universe Can Do Alive Ought Horror Corners Priests Forbidden Monstrous Festering

Book:THE BEST OF H. P. LOVECRAFT (Occult & Supernatural Series): Horror Classics: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Outsider, In the Vault, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_

Source: THE BEST OF H. P. LOVECRAFT (Occult & Supernatural Series): Horror Classics: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Outsider, In the Vault, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_

“One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.”

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

Heart Hard Enough Helping Given Secret Growing Crush Enough Time Deep Inside Festering

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.”

Years Has Beens Action Jobs Social Policy Areas Program Dollars Immigration Frustration Thrust Accommodate Social Service Beneficiaries Festering

Author:Sharon Pratt Kelly

“I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.”

Want Turns Emotion Cry Depression Surface Festering

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”

Home Behinds Towns Green Flags Orange Employers Cloaks Racks Slums Landlord Sweatshops Erin Festering Home Rule

Author:James Connolly

“I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.”

I Can Funny Together Hatred Catholic Misery Divorce Divorced After Divorce Happy Divorce Funny Divorce Going Through Divorce Festering Getting A Divorce

Author:Lenny Clarke

“What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.”

Ifs Healing Generations Wounds Future Generation Psychoanalytic Festering

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.”

Littles Persons Self Self Esteem Emotional Offers Threat Deeper Wounds Heal Esteem Faster Poison Ignored Adequate Spoil Cleaners Emotional Wounds Festering

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God”

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.”

Two Eye Black Justice Wise Blind Goddess Bandages Festering

Book:The Poems, 1951-1967

Source: The Poems, 1951-1967

“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!”

Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems

“The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.”

Looks Band Capitalism Misery Aids Wounds Tea Liberalism Bubbles Hello Equations Kitties Band Aid Festering Hello Kitty

Author:Vanessa Veselka

“As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.”

Helping Stories Problem Able Force Grows Interesting Danger Possibility Glory Definitions Determine Following Limitation Toxic Most Interesting Forces Of Nature Festering

Book:I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose

Source: I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose