Easily Wounded Quotes

#1. 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 somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

Lauren Groff

#2. Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die.

Mishka

#3. You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than any other kind of love. That's one reason that people are so thorny and so vulnerable and so easily wounded when in love.

Vivian Gornick

#5. Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Jacques Barzun

#6. Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#7. Canadians are so easily wounded.

Tucker Carlson

#8. I often feel caught in a dilemma: on the one hand I wish to be more natural with you and yet, on the other hand, because I feel that you're easily wounded and that you give my comments inordinate power, I feel I must consider my wording very, very carefully.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

Mary Summer Rain

#10. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick The Great

#11. There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

Michael Hastings

#12. Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had thought that mothers never had to sleep.

Robert A. Caro

#13. I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a small theatre company called Red One Theatre.

Joe Dinicol

#14. If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

Saint Augustine

#15. I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Eliot Engel

#16. He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies

Tertullian

#17. What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Rickman

#18. We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles.

Albert Camus