Wound Quotes

727 Wound quotes by 553 unique authors

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me… — Jean Genet
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. — Michael Ondaatje
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
...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 magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or… — Lev Grossman
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who… — Alice Sebold
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. — Alice Sebold
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too… — Jane Hamilton
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And… — Sarah MacLean
The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful… — Jodi Picoult
So why the sudden girlspeak, Urian? Neither one of us is really into discussing our feelings…and no offense, I like the fact we don’t. (Acheron)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk… — Jean Vanier
He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing… — Colum McCann
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask… — Thomas Merton
I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it.… — Karen Marie Moning
THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling… — Jed Rubenfeld
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. — William Shakespeare
All things great are wound up with all things little. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man… — Homer
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips… — Rollo May
It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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