Wound Quotes
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Euripides
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
Oscar Wilde
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No wound is worse than counterfeited love.
Sophocles
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
Nathan Fillion
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The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.
Aulus Gellius
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
Seneca the Younger
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Erica Jong
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After a long discussion with Mr. Holmes, we finally wound up with, I think, an agreement which will satisfy all parties.
Don Gibson
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman
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Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.
Richie Allen
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot
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Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.
Margaret Mitchell
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Bronte
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One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
Edmond Jabes
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
Billy Joel
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I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
Sophocles
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
Homer
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There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.
Winston Grime
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Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness.
Hermann Hesse
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She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.
Charles Dickens
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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
Jane Austen
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But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
Courtney Love