Top 19 Wounded Child Quotes
#1. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
Bell Hooks
#2. Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#4. Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.
Margarita Engle
#5. You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#7. Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar
#8. When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.
David W. Earle
#9. There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#10. I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine as my window, and a heart as red and open as my wounded hand.
Catherynne M Valente
#11. Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded ...
Frank Herbert
#13. It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.
Ian McEwan
#14. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Charlotte Gray
#15. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
Jack Canfield
#16. I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
Djimon Hounsou
#17. I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
#19. Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.
C.S. Lewis
