Wounds Quotes · Page 25

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

— Saadi

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

We've gotta be able to change that climate so that people feel more comfortable to be honest about their wounds.

— Kirk Franklin

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

— Jay McInerney

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

— Pope Francis

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

— Barbara Neely

As a veteran, I understand how difficult it can be to return home from the battlefield with both visible and invisible wounds.

— Michael Waltz

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and…

— Tariq Ramadan

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity,…

— Anonymous

That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their…

— Frederick Buechner

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's…

— Nalini Singh

Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and…

— Michael Jackson

I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in…

— Susanna Kearsley

The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating,…

— Saul Bellow

I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds…

— Horacio A. Tenorio

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball…

— Dizzy Dean

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace…

— Wangari Maathai

I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up…

— Jon Bernthal

When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in…

— Anonymous

Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow…

— Mark Akenside

Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is…

— Anonymous

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament…

— Conor McGregor

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more painful than anything that bleeds.

— Anonymous

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”

— Holly Black

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the…

— Gregg Allman

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

— T. D. Jakes

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

— Leonardo da Vinci

'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds.

— Gemma Galgani

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

— Aldous Huxley

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

— Jeanette Winterson

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

— Paul Auster

“Closing up a wound that’s not ready will only poison the whole body. Wounds have to heal in their own time. They…

— Heather Burch

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

— Robin Sharma

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

— William Robert Woodman

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

— Richelle Mead

“Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and…

— Chester W. Nimitz