Wounds Quotes
1273 Wounds quotes by 865 unique authors
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Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
— Anne Lamott
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I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
— Margaret Atwood
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We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come…
— Marianne Williamson
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when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm…
— P. C. Cast
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And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't…
— Leif Enger
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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is…
— Leo Tolstoy
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What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
— Jean Cocteau
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Time wounds all heels.
— Groucho Marx
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no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety…
— D. H. Lawrence
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land…
— Aldo Leopold
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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of…
— Gloria Naylor
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen…
— Thomas Hardy
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
— Unknown Author
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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and…
— John Robbins
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you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.
— Daphne Gottlieb
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The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.
— Neil Gaiman
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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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i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am…
— R A Salvatore
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Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among…
— Wendell Berry
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