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title: "10 Love Wounded Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-e-goodrich/saying-i-m-sorry-is-saying-i-love-you-with-a-wounded-heart-in-one/)

[Richelle E. Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-e-goodrich/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec8/richelle-e-goodrich-180_apologize_saying-i-m-sorry-is-saying-i-love-you-wi_1630777.jpg)

> [From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mechthild-of-magdeburg/from-suffering-i-have-learned-this-that-whoever-is-sore-wounded-by/)

[Mechthild of Magdeburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mechthild-of-magdeburg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/051/mechthild-of-magdeburg-29062_embrace_from-suffering-i-have-learned-this-that_304818.png)

> [From suffering I have learned this; That whoever sore wounded by love, will never be made whole unless the person embraces the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/from-suffering-i-have-learned-this-that-whoever-sore-wounded-by-love/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/325/anonymous-1_love_from-suffering-i-have-learned-this-that_3056211.jpg)

> [“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-not-the-perfect-but-the-imperfect-who-have-need-of-love-it-is-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/959/oscar-wilde-16_love_it-is-not-the-perfect-but-the-imperfect_1277049.jpg)

> [Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/love-is-not-love-that-wounded-bleeds-and-bleeding-sullies-slow-come/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/stevie-smith-8661_bleeding_love-is-not-love-that-wounded-bleeds-and_548283.png)

> [When love has been wounded; trust, reassurance, honesty, and intimacy, in abundance, are the only known cures](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-love-has-been-wounded-trust-reassurance-honesty-and-intimacy-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/anonymous-1_being-hurt_when-love-has-been-wounded-trust-reassur_19188.jpg)

> [I don't know what's goin' on. M mad these days, You've shot an arrow of love, M wounded by it. M totally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yashowardhan/i-don-t-know-what-s-goin-on-m-mad-these-days-you-ve-shot-an-arrow-of/)

[Yashowardhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yashowardhan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/954/yashowardhan-15583_i-can-t-live-without_i-don-t-know-what-s-goin-on-m-mad-these_550961.jpg)

> [“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-not-the-perfect-but-the-imperfect-who-have-need-of-love-it-is/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/oscar-wilde-16_love_it-is-not-the-perfect-but-the-imperfect_585191.jpg)

> [“My dear wife, my dear parents and all I love, I have been wounded. I hope it will be nothing, Care well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-asquith/my-dear-wife-my-dear-parents-and-all-i-love-i-have-been-wounded-i/)

[Margot Asquith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-asquith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/margot-asquith-11364_marriage_my-dear-wife-my-dear-parents-and-all-i-l_2443791.jpg)

> [“I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-theroux/i-had-cooperated-i-could-not-have-refused-i-was-smitten-with-her-half/)

[Paul Theroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-theroux/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f3/paul-theroux-913_enchantment_i-had-cooperated-i-could-not-have-refuse_236782.jpg)

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