Walking Wounded Quotes

#1. I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We are all the walking wounded, your pain is no worse than everyone else's.

Jessica Zafra

#2. 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

#3. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

Studs Terkel

#4. Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape, the walking wounded making one last stand in the dark before giving in to the inevitable".

Greg Gifune

#6. Loss will gut-punch you no matter the age of the deceased. It drops you to your knees. It shatters the dreams of your families...It brings tears, anger, shock and a rejection of faith--or the complete opposite: a reliance on faith. It creates the walking wounded.

Mary Jedlicka Humston

#7. Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves.

Gary A. Braunbeck

#8. The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public.

Paul Auster

#9. We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.

Kevin DeYoung

#10. The best kinds of families try to stop a train wreck - but if they can't, they still show up to give first aid to the walking wounded.

Emma Chase

#11. I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.

Annie Sprinkle

#12. We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

Dean Koontz

#13. If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

Kim Fowley

#14. Persian insect powder, mixed into a paste with petroleum jelly, had killed the lice in her hair, but then she'd inspected her clothes and found them infested with body lice, likely picked up from one of the walking wounded who

Jennifer Robson

#15. Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between ease and rich unrest.

Vera Brittain

#16. My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Clifton Fadiman

#17. An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Ford Coppola

#18. Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

Chrystos

#19. East Hollow is full of tormented souls.' I remark, only to hear his chuckle, his eyes moving forward just in time to step out of the way of a wayward man with armfuls of carrier bags.
'Now that is the attraction.

Charlotte Munro

#20. The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Eric Church

#21. Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

Maximillian Degenerez

#22. I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Michael Bloomberg

#23. Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

Dick Randolph

#24. At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Pope Benedict XVI

#25. This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.

Jack Bowman

#26. I go where the sound of thunder is.

Alfred M. Gray