Wounded Quotes - Page 11

• The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Grief, Honor

  "On War". www.nybooks.com. December 16, 2004.

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• No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Friendship, Needs, Likes

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• Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Art, Brain, Weak

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Water, Forgiving, Enemy

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Men, Grace, Useless

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• Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.

  John Ortberg

  Pain, Disappointment, Mean

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.

  John Keegan

  War, Ocean, Heart

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• I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  May, Type, Accuracy

  "Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad" by Thomas R. Marshall, (Ch. XVI), 1925.

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• Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Children, Race, Prejudice

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

  Aberjhani

  Dancing, Halos, Vortex

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.83, Lulu.com

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• I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?

  Alasdair Gray

  Good Life, Mean, Fighting

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• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, Body

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

  Moliere

  Soul, Bosoms

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• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

  Pete Hamill

  Lonely, Promise, Love And Friendship

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

  Murray Kempton

  War, Critics, Battlefields

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• A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

  Oenomaus

  Life, Fighting, Men

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

  Brian Jacques

  Sad, Memories, Heart

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Friends, Fire, Safety

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• Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

  Rick Mercer

  America, Bulls, These Days

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• I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Thinking, India, World

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• She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

  Emmy Rossum

  Lonely, Heart, People

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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  Otto Hermann Kahn

  House, Liberty, Autocracy

  Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

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