Wound Quotes

727 Wound quotes by 553 unique authors

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
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. — Diana Butler Bass
Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought,… — Donna Woolfolk Cross
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy… — Karen Traviss
There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call… — Jean Baker Miller
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott

Who Wrote These Wound Quotes

553 authors contributed a total of 727 Wound Quotes, led by these top contributors: