Wounds Quotes
1273 Wounds quotes by 865 unique authors
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
— Neil Gaiman
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I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed…
— George S. Patton
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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.
— Julius Lester
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just…
— Ai Yazawa
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Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is…
— Thrity Umrigar
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Time heals all wounds.
— Stephen King
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds…
— M. Scott Peck
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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and…
— Sara Zarr
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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
— Billy Joel
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One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is…
— Lisa Kleypas
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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She…
— Charles Dickens
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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces…
— Charles Dickens
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
— John Milton
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.
— Dean Koontz
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Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
— Joan Didion
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People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before…
— George Carlin
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Death laid its eggs in the wound
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And…
— Amy Tan
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or…
— Oscar Wilde
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Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
— Mineko Iwasaki
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When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly…
— D. H. Lawrence
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
— Oscar Wilde
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It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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