Wounded Quotes
478 quotes by 408 authors
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
— Amy Tan
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
— Oscar Wilde
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It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was…
— Stephen King
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And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a…
— Daniel Handler
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Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured…
— Sheri L. Dew
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I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't…
— Bell Hooks
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It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the…
— Ian Mcewan
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You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not…
— Marcel Proust
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When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they…
— Lauren Groff
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Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God…
— Joel Osteen
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The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without…
— Diana Gabaldon
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He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly…
— C.S. Lewis
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It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated.…
— Janet Fitch
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I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.
— Li-Young Lee
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Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must…
— Brian Jacques
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath…
— Richard Wright
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their…
— Rick Riordan
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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up…
— Rudyard Kipling
Who Wrote These Wounded Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 478 Wounded Quotes, led by these top contributors: