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Quotes About Leper

I mean, Kim used to be a leper in the fashion community, and now they embrace her and she's on the cover of Vogue, and that's all thanks to Kanye. And her being associated with him was good not just for her, but for her entire family.
~ Perez Hilton
The night was filled with horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!
~ Joseph Heller
he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!
~ Joseph Heller
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
Inside,I closed the door quietly. Tom slept on his back in the straw with arms out wide like Christ crucified. I thanked Saint Barbara for guiding me safely thus far. "Tom?" A stirring in the straw, a head looking up, a disgusted gasp. "Unclean! Do they send a leper to infect me now?" I ran to him,whispering. "Hush.It's me, Tess.
~ Janet Lee Carey
Truth is a leper banished from the hearts of men and rotting away in exile. All that is left is corruption, a bad smell, some unnameable pieces of what was once a thing lucent and good.
~ Rikki Ducornet
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
~ Ayn Rand
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
~ Robin Williams
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
~ Allan Sherman
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world meaning no harm
~ Graham Greene
If he meant to survive, he could not afford the luxury of grieving over lost hopes. He was a leper; all his hopes were false.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
re: Matthew 8) "[Jesus'] almost refusal to allow the complications of men to interfere with the loving work of God." [for the leper} "...this is not a media event, it is a personal experience...he is in effect, to minimize the wonder by returning to the ordinary rituals." "One wonders still at the cleanness of the incident...God's spirit hovers now as it always has over simpler scenes; He is found directly more often in truthful human exchanges than in convoluted efforts to escape humanity.
~ Eugene Kennedy
There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn't been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run by the Brothers of Saint Patrick, a group of Irish missionaries to whom the crows had been sent.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?
~ Sherry Thomas
I had bedbugs in 2005. I felt like a leper. Worse than a leper. At least lepers had a colony they could go and live in with other people who empathized. I instead had friends stand up from tables and walk out of restaurants when I told them I had bedbugs, because they were afraid I'd transfer the bugs to them.
~ Chris Gethard
If you have no money but only a love of freedom, only a prayer for mercy on your lips, you are debarred, returned to the slaughter-house, shunned as a leper.
~ Henry Miller
He was a LEPER, you idiot! Not a leopard.
~ Christopher Moore
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
~ Umberto Eco
Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
~ Umberto Eco
This is the illusion of heresy. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only to keep the leper as he is.
~ Umberto Eco