Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure,… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And what do you want right now?" Right now I itch to heal his wounds and forget my own. He touches my… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it:… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for… — Lora Mathis Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip,… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I made reference continuously to the killings, the death, the life taken by all of these narcotrafficking gangs and human smugglers. I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
“I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think… — William Cartwright Copy Share Image
Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image