Wounded Quotes
478 quotes by 413 authors
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And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait…
— Philip Pullman
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They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
— Rohinton Mistry
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...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
— Kate Morton
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The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness
— Osamu Dazai
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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
— C.S. Lewis
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For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in…
— Nalini Singh
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we…
— Alice Walker
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Men!" "At least we don't fake it." "Listen, it was your uncle. And we were late, remember? So I made the sacrifice and got us…
— Janet Evanovich
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I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are.…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake…
— Janet Frame
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I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked…
— Linda Howard
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The wounded recognized the wounded.
— Nora Roberts
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged…
— Lionel Shriver
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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has…
— Libba Bray
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Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in…
— Amy Carmichael
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So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest…
— Ann Aguirre
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The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.
— Dean Koontz
Who Wrote These Wounded Quotes
413 authors contributed a total of 478 Wounded Quotes, led by these top contributors: