Wounds Quotes

• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Wounds
  • Possible Idea

• My wounds, ... It was like a cortisone to heal these wounds. I rubbed it on every night and it helped me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Night
  • Heal
  • Cortisone

• The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wounds
  • Self-Love
  • Incurable

• War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

  

  Tacitus
  • War
  • Party
  • Discover

• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  

  Plutarch
  • Cried
  • Pollution
  • Nourishment

• Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Why
  • Past
  • Distance

• A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

  

  Art Smith
  • Smile
  • Wounds

• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  

  Plutarch
  • Conscious
  • Repentance
  • Remorse

• The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Violence
  • Blood
  • Target

• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Silence
  • Silent
  • Preaching

• Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds you, it's because of the meaning that you have linked to it. Maybe what you need to do is to have faith and say, 'Even though I don't know why this has happened, I am willing to trust. Someday, when the time is right, I will understand.'

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Remember
  • Universe
  • Disappear

• He (the driver) was able to get out of his vehicle (but) I think the gunshot wounds that he received in the car were fatal

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Car
  • Received
  • Vehicle

• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Modesty
  • Publish
  • Foul

• Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kindness
  • Fine
  • Courtesy

• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Wounds
  • Reference
  • Suits Of Armor

• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wounds
  • Edges
  • Blade

• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Tongue
  • Wounds
  • Mockery

• What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

  

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Feelings

• He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Doe
  • Tongue
  • Flattery

• Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Pain

• And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Catalyst

• The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

  

  Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
  • Moon
  • Emotion
  • Devotion

• Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Mercy
  • Gates

• I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Speak
  • Safety

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