Wounded Quotes - Page 12

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

  Moliere

  Soul, Bosoms

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• So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours
  I may have too much, but I'll take my chances
  Cause God's stopped keeping score
  And you cling to the things they sold you
  Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back
  Cause he has no children to come back for
  It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate
  Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
  And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
  So maybe we should all be praying for time

  George Michael

  Song, Children, Hate

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• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Home, Men

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• My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.

  William C. Oates

  War, Men, Rocks

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Real, Youth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1614, eBookIt.com

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• Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Hurt, Healing, Museums

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2016

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• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

  Ike Skelton

  Years, Iraq, Three

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• Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

  Sally Gardner

  Heart, Ideas, Broken

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• McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel…. There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes — the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression — into his narrative, and in a magical love scene.

  Noah Richler

  Art, Father, Writing

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• What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

  John L'Heureux

  Animal, Sound, Strange

  John L'Heureux (2002). “An Honorable Profession”, p.17, Grove Press

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Empathy, Mindfulness

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

  Julie Gold

  Smart, Heart, Animal

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Illumination, Simplicity

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Heart, Mean

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

  M. Scott Peck

  Strange, Should, Feels

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Compassion

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• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

  Lauren Groff

  Hurt, Book, Home

  Lauren Groff (2008). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

  Rohinton Mistry

  Carnage, Humans, Left

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.366, Vintage

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• ...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

  Kate Morton

  People, Stories, Refills

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Eye, Sunset

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.110, Penguin

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• We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

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• The wounded surgeon plies the steel
  That questions the distempered part;
  Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
  The sharp compassion of the healer's art
  Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Compassion, Hands

  'Four Quartets' 'East Coker' (1940) pt. 4

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