Top 100 Quotes About Wounds
#1. But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse.
Jess Rothenberg
#2. The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Hannah More
#3. To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.
Paulo Coelho
#4. The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#5. That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
Frederick Buechner
#6. Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.
Rodolfo Llinas
#7. Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
Kathy Reichs
#9. There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.
Moira Young
#10. We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Norman Mailer
#11. They were out of the Army and out of the experimental program that had failed. They were no longer soldiers. No longer whole. They were the walking wounded, each and every man. Mad Dog was the tip of spear. Time could not heal all wounds.
Cindy Skaggs
#12. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#13. As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
Alain De Botton
#14. To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them.
Paulo Coelho
#15. Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
Publilius Syrus
#16. What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.
Deepak Chopra
#17. Time heals all wounds, or at least it causes them to scab.
Karina Halle
#18. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
Lance Armstrong
#19. Scars are simply modern battle wounds. Sometimes the enemy happens to be inside us.
Andrew Grey
#20. Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Karl Kraus
#21. Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.
Tammara Webber
#22. He'd almost died and seeing the proof of his knife wounds, hearing him describe the incident that had almost taken his life, rattled her so much.
With him still holding her wrist, she bent awkwardly and pressed her lips against the worst of his scars.
Virna DePaul
#23. Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
Warren Farrell
#24. Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#25. Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds.
Roberto Bolano
#26. There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not 'bear the wounds'2 of battles' avoided. Petrified imaginaries are the scars of our aversion; calcified thought coagulated into magical formulas of destructive equivalence.
Anonymous
#27. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.
Charles Dickens
#28. We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244)
Edie Wadsworth
#29. Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening.
Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#30. They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.
David Wong
#31. The wounds were not on the surface, nor detectable by stethoscope.
Eric Lomax
#32. Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don't.
Beth Revis
#33. 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 to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become ...
David Deida
#34. I loved my wounds, not because they hurt but because they were like a gun in my pocket. They gave me a power that no one knew I had.
Supervert
#35. Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.
Ai Yazawa
#36. emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw.
John McEvoy
#37. Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos
#38. Honest communication is open, healing new and old wounds.
Marie Clair
#39. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.
William Landay
#42. He would let Violet find her own way and time to tell Elizabeth. In the interim, he would listen and hold her hand and offer his counsel, but he would not push. He understood now how deep her wounds ran, how hard it was for her to trust that she could make mistakes and still deserve love.
Sarah Mayberry
#43. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.
Richard Webber
#44. I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.
Anne Frank
#45. Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.
Arthur Lynch
#46. May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
Pope Francis
#48. Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479
Ivan Goncharov
#49. But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Cathy Lamb
#50. Because, visible through the slashed covers, the bone-deep wounds that crisscross the couple's bodies pump blood. Some of the flaps of skin resulting from glancing blows are like gills, breathing. Yet even as the cries die away, he carries on.
Mark Kirkbride
#51. Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.
Emma Forrest
#52. Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.
Stacy Allison
#53. Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#54. Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.
Demi Moore
#56. If you want to know where to find your contribution to the world, look at your wounds. When you learn how to heal them, teach others.
Emily Maroutian
#57. You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
Jane Fonda
#58. I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie
#60. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. (Isa. 53:5)
Angie Smith
#61. A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
Richard Sibbes
#62. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu
#63. Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Anonymous
#64. Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
David Richo
#65. Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
Lactantius
#66. Time doesn't heal all wounds; it wallpapers over them.
Marshall Moore
#67. The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain ... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.
Tad R. Callister
#68. I can feel blood dripping from the wounds on my face and I can feel my heart beating and I can feel the weight of my life beginning to drop and I realize why dawn is called mourning.
James Frey
#69. Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.
Emily Giffin
#71. Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.
Goodman Ace
#72. Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
Thomas Jefferson
#73. Hurt spreads and grows and reaches out to break what's good. Time heals all wounds, but often it's only by the application of the grave, and while we live some hurts live with us, burning, making us twist and turn to escape them. And as we twist, we turn into other men.
Mark Lawrence
#74. They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
Sidney Sheldon
#75. Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.
Marty Rubin
#76. Once your heart has been broken, it's never really heals. The wounds may heal, but the scars remain there forever. That delicate tissue must be guarded and protected at all cost.
K. Langston
#77. If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.
Sting
#78. Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen.
William Robert Woodman
#79. 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 shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#80. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.
Anonymous
#81. They've kicked our backsides ... we've got to lick our wounds ...
Steve Bruce
#83. Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#85. Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
Laird Barron
#86. Oh, come on. Wouldn't you rather go upstairs and lick your wounds? Maybe make an ice pack for your crotch?
Rachel Vincent
#87. I'd watched them in all their beautiful courage. I'd watched them as they struggled through their hurts and their wounds.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#88. Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings ...
Dean Koontz
#89. I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
Cole Younger
#90. Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#91. They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.
Jamie Schoffman
#92. There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#93. If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward,
Richard Branson
#94. Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.
Eugene O'Neill
#95. Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
James F. Amos
#97. She didn't immediately answer, and he didn't press her. Heart wounds, he knew, made one think more slowly.
Maggie Stiefvater
#98. Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
Mary E. DeMuth
#99. I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.
Bell Hooks
#100. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.
Leah Hager Cohen
