Fresh Wound Quotes

#1. But pain is like a fresh wound. If you add pressure to it, the more it'll hurt. With time, the wound will heal. A scar will remain, reminding you that the pain once existed. Time heals.

Jasmine Rose

#2. Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#3. Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.

Cassandra Clare

#4. 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 he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Ron Fournier

#6. When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again

Aporva Kala

#7. Oh, darling, just look at your poor face. You're going to need an herb poultice and a fresh piece of steak for that wound."
"And here I was looking forward to eating dinner, not wearing it on my face.

Tracy Anne Warren

#8. I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.

Rachel Caine

#9. He did what he could, and that was more than enough.

Steven Herrick

#10. We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

Anthony Marra

#11. I would not want a husband who valued my appearance more than my wit.

Michaela MacColl

#12. Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen,
That time may find its sound again, and cleanse
Whatever it is that a wound remembers
After the healing ends.

Weldon Kees

#13. Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma.

Jonathan Dunne

#14. On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

J.P. Donleavy

#15. My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Griffin Dunne

#16. Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

Federico Garcia Lorca