Wounded Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Mean, Feelings, Facts

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

  Ben Kingsley

  Profound, Forgiving, Lessons

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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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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• 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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• The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, Sight, Arrows

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

  Chrystos

  Cities, Names, Knees

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

  Dorianne Laux

  Song, Writing, Singing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Expression, Generosity, Delicacy

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• At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Hurt, Hate, Fighting

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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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• 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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• Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Looks, Vengeful

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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

  Carl Jung

  Heal

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• Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Boys, Feet

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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