Wound Quotes

727 Wound quotes by 553 unique authors

I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me.… — John Vanbiesbrouck
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no… — Unknown Author
I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able… — Bradley Cooper
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of… — Laurence Olivier
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this. — Paul Newman
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Unknown Author
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for… — Richard Adams
Lighter is the wound foreseen. — Cato the Elder
The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound. — Aulus Gellius
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him. — Lloyd Alexander
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it… — Malcolm X
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and… — Osama bin Laden
The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a… — Edward R. Murrow
Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10… — Katherine Moennig
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever… — Rajneesh
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. — Phillip Moffitt
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from… — David Richo
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or… — David Richo
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. — David Richo
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be… — Leslie Jamison
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal. — Susan Wiggs
A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one… — Elissa Schappell

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