Wounded Quotes - Page 16

• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Wings, Movement

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• Have consideration for wounded feelings.

  Ovid

  Feelings, Consideration

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• The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

  Jeff Daniels

  Couple, Kids, Soldier

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• Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

  James Taylor

  Home, Night, Soldier

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• Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Self, Knowing Who You Are

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• A dog starv'd at the master's gate
  Predicts the ruin of the State.
  A horse misus'd upon the road
  Calls to heaven for human blood.
  Each outcry of the hunted hare
  A fibre from the brain does tear,
  A skylark wounded on the wing,
  A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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• Don't the wounded bird still sing?

  Sheryl Crow

  Bird, Unanswered Questions, Stills

  Song: Ordinary Morning, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

  Tom Udall

  Essentials, Care, Veteran

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• Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Battle, Cyprus, Fresh Start

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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Single, Heart, Positive Attitude

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

  Margaret Mead

  Flesh, Stuff, Injustice

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Soul, May, Flesh

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

  Carl Jung

  Heal

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

  Bob Dole

  Country, War, Would Be

  "Cheney, Lieberman gear up for sole vice presidential debate" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2000.

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• I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Real, People

  "THR's Book of the Week: 'Suspect' by Robert Crais " by Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Mother, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

  John Bradshaw

  Children, Believe, Past

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.7, Bantam

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• Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.

  Keri Hulme

  Artist, Land, Skills

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