Wounds Quotes

1273 Wounds quotes by 865 unique authors

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me… — Jean Genet
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. — Michael Ondaatje
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing… — David Deida
Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his… — Cassandra Clare
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons) — Sharon Kay Penman
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or… — Lev Grossman
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who… — Alice Sebold
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. — Alice Sebold
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? — Lord Byron
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. — Aldo Leopold
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too… — Jane Hamilton
You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They… — Henry Rollins
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched... — Gabrielle Zevin
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and… — Brennan Manning
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time… — Deb Caletti
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the… — Karen Marie Moning
Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in… — Terry Pratchett
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds. — Sherman Alexie

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