Wounded Quotes

478 quotes by 413 authors

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved… — Douglas MacArthur
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had… — Walter Dean Myers
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying… — Henri Nouwen
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A… — Erich Maria Remarque
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you… — Fulton J. Sheen
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. — Henry David Thoreau
They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What… — Cormac McCarthy
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a… — Robert Anton Wilson
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could… — Libba Bray
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have… — Robert Anton Wilson
Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's… — Eva Ibbotson
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its… — Khalil Gibran
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. — Annie Proulx
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed,… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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