Top 71 Salve Quotes
#1. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.
Mary Jo Putney
#2. Avoidance doesn't solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.
Tony Dungy
#3. In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened ... or depressed would be asked, ... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
Gabrielle Roth
#4. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.
Leah Hager Cohen
#6. NW is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia
for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore
is less a salve than a form of pain.
Christian Lorentzen
#7. Wherarewe?" Thorne muttered.
"Oh, you're awake already," said Cinder, returning with salve and gauze. "I was hoping you'd stay knocked out awhile longer. The peace and quiet was a pleasant change.
Marissa Meyer
#8. I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Erica Jong
#9. We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's
Carrie Brownstein
#11. The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.
Geraldine Brooks
#12. Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
Candace Wheeler
#13. a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier
Rachel Zucker
#14. Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.
Jack R. Rose
#16. I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
Lena Headey
#17. Your words are so powerful that they can break
hearts or fill them with joy. Your words have
the ability to comfort a wounded soul or shatter
someone's confidence. Your words can act as your
messengers of hope or a salve for a broken human
being.
Rachel C. Weingarten
#18. Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.
Rumi
#19. Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.
Tad Williams
#20. There is no greater salve for the soul than family and friends.
L.F.Young
#21. Wine is a much better salve than anything the medical profession has ever prescribed. Even the Bible condones it!
Jonathan Evison
#22. Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
Rosa Parks
#23. There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.
Helen Macdonald
#24. We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Roy Barnes
#25. The only balm to sorrow is memory; the only salve for the pain of losing someone to death is acknowledging the life that existed before.
Nina Sankovitch
#26. We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.
Seth Godin
#27. Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
Stella Benson
#28. The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.
E.B. White
#29. When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.
Radhanath Swami
#31. He chanced a look at her and saw the flare of something in her eyes. A salve to the emptiness that sometimes threatened to suffocate him.
Melina Marchetta
#32. What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.
Sylvia Plath
#33. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#35. Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.
Chris Campanioni
#36. People ask me all the time why I write. I do realize that one day I will have to answer this question, most likely in front of a large crowd. But how do you tell the truth when you struggle just to write it? How do you admit that the words are just salve to the things you are too afraid to say?
Kacey Vanderkarr
#37. Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve
it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.
Jonathan Evison
#38. Gratitude is not a band aid and neither is happiness. You can't just slap it on a wound and it will automatically heal, but it is a salve that can help keep it clean, free of infection, and back on the road to recovery.
James Fullerton
#39. Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.
Matthew Henry
#40. Introducing the idea of beauty as a salve and of aesthetics making something difficult accessible.
Henri Cole
#41. Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
John Donne
#42. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.
Richard Armour
#43. The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Tariq Ramadan
#44. When things like this happen - when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing - it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become.
Ally Condie
#45. It often happens that when a soul under duress is required to attend to a separate difficulty, one that does not concern him in the least, then this second problem works upon the first as a kind of salve.
Eleanor Catton
#46. I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering.
Beth Morey
#47. Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#48. When he finished cleaning my open wounds, he found a jar of salve and began rubbing it into the rough parts of my skin. I sort of got lost in the feel of his hands massaging mine.
Richelle Mead
#49. I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. We'd all much rather take something for the pain and make it all go away.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#54. We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
Billy Graham
#55. Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias
the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#56. Most people who say they oppose abortion do just enough to salve the conscience but not enough to stop the killing.
Scott Klusendorf
#57. History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind.
James Daniel Ross
#58. My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
Erik Larson
#59. People can't handle guilt. Their minds won't let them for very long. So they make up excuses. Excuses work like a salve, allaying the guilt, letting you forget the real problem.
Darynda Jones
#60. Ronan looked pained; polite was not his style. But he said, "Salve." To Blue, he said, "That actually means be well." "Super
Maggie Stiefvater
#61. He can't help me. Not in the way that I need to be helped. I don't want a salve or whatever form of support my mother received. I've seen one family destroyed. I don't plan on repeating that trend.
Alessandra Torre
#62. Finn was meant to find that journal. To find me. To be a salve, and perhaps even heal, a heart I'd worried was destined to ache forever.
Jessica Hawkins
#63. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.
Meryn G. Callander
#64. All the salve in the world can't cure what gets broken in somebody's soul -Mama
Sharon M. Draper
#65. Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
Not what is dangerous present, but the los
Of what is past.
William Shakespeare
#67. Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#68. Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, - Ashley
Ryanne Salve
#69. Well Ashley, my dear, there is time for everything," was Armand's wise counsel to his daughter. "In time, Justin will warm up to you. Just be patient." (Chapter 2)
Ryanne Salve
#70. Don't take it so hard, Joel," Johnson cut in. "After all, prayer is
not the monopoly of one." (Chapter 18)
Ryanne Salve
#71. Miss Alcasid commented. "You know, when you believe, when you have faith in what you ask for, even though how insignificant it may seem to others, as long as your prayer is said with pure intentions, it will be granted." (Chapter 18)
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