Wounds Quotes · Page 25

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

— Joel Osteen

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

— Deepak Chopra

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

— Euripides

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

— Jessie J

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

— Mario Balotelli

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

— Samuel Rutherford

“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.”

— Victor Hugo

Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd…

— Jennifer Estep

“We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny…

— Stephanie Lawton

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up…

— Anthony Hopkins

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into…

— Ann Voskamp

“Life on earth has sharp teeth. It has a way of wounding us. The only way to begin nursing your wounds is…

— Lecrae Moore

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay…

— Henri

Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope…

— Madison Smartt Bell

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery…

— Alexander Pope

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…

— Oscar Wilde

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the…

— Graham Greene

He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It…

— Frances Hardinge

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron…

— Anonymous

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions.…

— Bertolt Brecht

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power…

— John Robbins

This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say…

— Peter McWilliams

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

— Anonymous

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

— Sharon Kay Penman

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

— Randy Pausch

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

— Laurence J. Peter

If your wounds neverly heals for a long time, let me be the bandage to take good care of you forever.

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn’t necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse.”

— Jess Rothenberg

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

— Victor Hugo

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

— Tacitus

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

— Lisa Kleypas

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

— Georges Duhamel

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used…

— Boris Pasternak

Not all scars shows. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend,…

— Michael Tobias