Quotes About Self Inflicted Wounds

#1. I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

Sylvester Stallone

#2. How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds!

Anonymous

#3. A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.

Joyce Meyer

#4. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.

Dan Skinner

#5. We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.

David Blunkett

#6. Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

Gerald R. Ford

#7. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.

Anonymous

#8. I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

John Mayer

#9. 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 your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Jay McInerney

#11. Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

Thomas Keating

#12. But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Hjalmar Schacht

#13. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Osamu Dazai

#14. Wounds of the flesh mend with time, but not always those of the soul. They can continue to bleed long after being inflicted, sometimes even festering with bitterness, anger and despair. "You

Jocelyn Murray

#15. While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

#17. The wounds inflicted upon us by others help us to appreciate the joy of His love even more! EL

Evinda Lepins

#18. I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Anne Frank

#19. Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from ... evidence of wounds ... wounds inflicted of mistakes ... wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#20. In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Honore De Balzac

#21. It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

Bill Veeck

#22. People are complicated, and they hurt each other. Effie Linton had known this for a long time, just as she knew that sometimes those wounds were inflicted deliberately, over and over, and not with fists or weapons. Sometimes, they did it with love.

Megan Hart

#23. For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Frantz Fanon

#24. The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful.

Stacey Culpepper

#25. In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Thurston Clarke

#26. Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

William J. Clinton

#27. We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Philip Greenspun

#28. The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision for the body and conscience for the soul. I come to free mankind from their shackles.

Adolf Hitler

#29. There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Georges Duhamel

#30. Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#31. In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting

Lorraine Heath

#32. The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.

Le Ly Hayslip

#33. All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

#34. She was mine, had always been, and I'd always been hers. Despite what I'd done, the wounds I'd inflicted, she had always been mine ... our hearts had been tied, our bond one that neither of us could ever escape.

A.L. Jackson

#35. The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.

Serena Valentino

#36. Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson

#37. Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

N.K. Jemisin

#38. Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Honore De Balzac

#39. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. Our deepest sorrows always flow from the same source as might have filled us with joy, and those wounds burn the fiercest which are inflicted by a hand we love.

Georg Ebers

#41. Sadly, all of my wounds had been inflicted by men

Jean Sasson

#42. Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness.

Kilroy J. Oldster