Wounds Quotes
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.
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I’d watched them in all their beautiful courage. I’d watched them as they struggled through their hurts and their wounds.
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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
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There was no splatter or droplets of blood which can happen with gunshot wounds.
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When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
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Because we want the same happiness We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts. Forever, forever So I won't forget you I call you over and over again Please don't cry any more I won't leave you alone.
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You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
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Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.
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And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."
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He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
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Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
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As for those whose role it is to love us – I mean, relatives and in-laws – It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
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Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.
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Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
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If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.
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Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.
