These Liver quotes will inspire you. The liver is a large, meaty organ that sits on the right side of the belly or a large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates, involved in many metabolic processes.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Liver quotes, Liver sayings, and Liver proverbs.
Best Liver Quotes
- “Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.” ~ William James
- “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
- “Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno
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“Life loves the liver of it.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.” ~ Richard Selzer
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“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” ~ Thomas Harris
- “When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.” ~ John Roberts
- “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
- “Alas, their love may be call’d appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I had to have a complete liver transplant.” ~ Shelley Fabares
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“I was born with music inside me” ~ Ray Charles
- “Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.” ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
- “As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what’s been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.” ~ Sloane Crosley
- “I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! ‘Cause my dad’s a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!” ~ Christopher Titus
- “I’m not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It’s a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I’m throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It’s the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.” ~ Layne Staley
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“All right, let’s not panic. I’ll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.” ~ Homer
- “If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I’d decline. ”Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,” I’d reply, ”so I can go on drinking and smoking!”” ~ Luis Bunuel
- “If a man can only write well when drunk, I’ll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I’ll answer: what’s your liver? It’s a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you’ll write will live without a as long as.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
- “When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.” ~ David Baltimore
- “Did you know that there is growing scientific consensus that one of the most common types of sugar, fructose, can be toxic to the liver, just like alcohol? And unfortunately, this is the same type of sugar that you find in most sports drinks.” ~ Lee Labrada
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“Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “I’m not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.” ~ Sharon Olds
- “The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.” ~ Eric Kandel
- “My mother really didn’t know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn’t know a heck of a lot about what I did.” ~ Sanford I. Weill
- “Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind – none of this effete French muck – and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.” ~ Bryan Talbot
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“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” ~ Peter S. Beagle
- “Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.” ~ Anthony Atala
- “There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn’t regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.” ~ John Roberts
- “Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.” ~ Nhat Hanh
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“Drink up, England… I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.” ~ CM Punk
- “I’m away so much I’ve had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.” ~ Ray Winstone
- “There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.” ~ Patrick Bedard
- “1914…Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn’t until the 1940’s…that the ‘modern’ medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.” ~ G. Edward Griffin
- “If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.” ~ Alfred Kazin
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“Licorice is the liver of candy.” ~ Michael O’Donoghue
- “What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ‘ I’m the most important organ, and the liver said ‘I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.’ You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.” ~ Jacque Fresco
- “It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.” ~ Herbert M. Shelton
- “It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing…[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.” ~ Tertullian
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“And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it” ~ Black Thought
- “Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.” ~ Lola Montez
- “It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.” ~ Tom Sizemore
- “The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.” ~ Ellen G. White
- “Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.” ~ Ellen G. White
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“Eating liver out of a cow’s body is like eating the filter out of a car.” ~ Dick Gregory
- “Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you make the grade? What catapulted you into consciousness? There must be some kind of natural process behind this astonishing leap, but this process is obscure.” ~ Colin McGinn
- “I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.” ~ Michael Baden
- “Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.” ~ Chico Xavier
- “Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, ‘Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat’s liver? Will he make you into an insect’s leg?’ Tzu-Lai replied, ‘The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'” ~ Zhuangzi , Liver quotes life
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“Ive heard about cases when people repented of pornography and were healed of liver cancer.” ~ Gordon Klingenschmitt
- “My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. Theres a connection between what the liver cant break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.” ~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
- “I am a sick man…I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don’t know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What’s more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “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
- “For the liver, what’s so interesting is that there’s no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It’s one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we’ve known this since the time of Greek mythology.” ~ Sangeeta N. Bhatia
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“In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it’ll be back in two weeks.” ~ Sangeeta N. Bhatia
- “Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.” ~ Josh Billings
- “One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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“I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I’m a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.” ~ Donna Karan
- “We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat-eater it’s just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It’s also instilled in my family culture, where it’s not even an ethical thing, it’s just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.” ~ Thu Tran
- “I would like to mention some preparations that were required of me. The first preparation is to take a right attitude toward life. This means, stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That’s what we are doing here now.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
