Wound Quotes

727 Wound quotes by 553 unique authors

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear — Susie Bright
Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice… — Mabel Collins
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and… — Christian Wiman
For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. — Raquel Cepeda
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we… — William Ralph Inge
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding… — Eric Fischl
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. — Mario Balotelli
Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood. — Edmond Jabes
At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being… — Delta Burke
Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend… — Mary Renault
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester — Anne Perry
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their… — Alice von Hildebrand
We should never use the truth to wound. — Saint Augustine
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young… — Henry Ward Beecher
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not… — Saint John Chrysostom
Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes… — Ken Wilber
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. — Khalil Gibran
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to… — Thomas Willis
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. — Pema Chodron
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. — John Milton
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er… — Robert Browning

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