Words Can Wound Quotes

#1. Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Mary-Louise Parker

#4. What are words? Sometimes the flick of a pair of eyes or the flush of skin reveals everything you need to know. Words can wound. Silence can heal.

Tillie Cole

#5. The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.

Neil Gaiman

#6. I am a writer ... a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Ey Wade

#7. I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

Susan Abulhawa

#8. I saw the shadows of the bears before I saw the bears themselves: huge they were, and pale, made of the pages of fierce books: poems ancient and modern prowled the ice floes in bear-shape, filled with words that could wound with their beauty.

Neil Gaiman

#9. As a man thinketh so is he?
The faith of a mustard seed?
I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#10. For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!

Meredith Duran

#11. Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Cher

#12. A wound on Heart is something that can not be treated by any medicine, but can be treated by sweet words.

Srinivas Shenoy

#13. Because words are powerful; they can hurt and wound, and one word can lead to a thousand horrors. So don't forget to be impeccable with your words.

Kunal Nayyar

#14. I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William H Gass

#15. Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Francis Quarles

#16. I can't remember the poem
That pierced through my heart
It was the saddest I heard
Of all truths ever spoken
It left a scar in me
A wound that doesn't heal
But the words are forgotten
So is a big part of me

A.A. Patawaran

#17. But sometimes words are the only hands
we have to touch a bruised memory
or cleanse a wound that never healed
or lift a body we carried for years
at last to the pyre of shared grief

Fred Dings

#18. Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.

Carlos Fuentes

#19. A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. When silence is used as a weapon it can wound even more than words. ~ Jill Thrussell

Jill Thrussell

#21. What magnetic force draws us to scenes of pain, and words that wound us? You have seen this, I told myself as I marched along to that apartment. You have seen this already, you've lived through this, spare yourself

Andrew Sean Greer