Top 39 Words That Wound Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Cher
#3. 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
#4. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#5. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.
Vivek Shanbhag
#6. 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
#7. When I was a teenager, her habit of cramming a bunch of words into one line, plus the way her lyrics tend to start with small particularities and ripple outward into universal truths, lodged itself into my ears and wound up directly on my pages.
Meghan Daum
#8. Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. 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
#10. A wound on Heart is something that can not be treated by any medicine, but can be treated by sweet words.
Srinivas Shenoy
#12. For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
Meredith Duran
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Let your words heal, not wound.
Germany Kent
#18. 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
#19. But the queen
too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [ ... ]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.
Virgil
#22. The sword wound heals in time, but the wound of words spoken out of anger never do
N. Davis
#23. People say that scars are the sign of victory; the winning marks against what broke them. But how about the wound that never heals? What would that make you? A winner, a loser, a survivor?
E. Mellyberry
#24. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
Thiruvalluvar
#25. You cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
Lang Leav
#26. The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
#27. The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.
Neil Gaiman
#28. Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
Margaret Cavendish
#29. Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer
Munia Khan
#30. When silence is used as a weapon it can wound even more than words. ~ Jill Thrussell
Jill Thrussell
#31. I'll take it. I'll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what's to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound - no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth.
Ann Voskamp
#32. words in a foreign language never wound us like words in the language to which we're born. But
Garth Greenwell
#33. Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#34. Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
Sathya Sai Baba
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
Deepak Chopra
#39. Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
Francis Quarles
