Wounds Quotes - Page 21

• A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

  Art Smith

  Smile, Heal, Thousand

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• There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sympathy, Pain, Depth

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• Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

  Lauren Hutton

  Travel, Good Life, Ideas

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• My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positive Thinking, Use, Heal

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2010

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• Art is a wound turned into light.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Healing, Light

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• You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Breakup, Point Break, Fighter

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin

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• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Would Be, Exhibitions

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• A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Secret, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.94, YWAM Publishing

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "We Are Alive". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Journey, Suitcases

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• What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

  Deepak Chopra

  Relationship, Scar, Flaws

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• I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Mother

  Said in 1977. "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373, 2011.

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• We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Loss, Enemy

  "Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States". Book by United States Naval History Division and United States Navy, 1969.

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  Sean O'Casey

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sean O'Casey (1973). “Sunset and evening star”, Pan

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• A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.829, Delphi Classics

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• 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Anger, Wine, Order

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• There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.

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• When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Hurt, Children

  Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Sadness, Lamps, Sticks

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D. M. Thomas, 1963.

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• What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, People, Insufferable

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• The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Jealous, Giving

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• He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

  May Sarton

  Cat, Desire, Legs

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• Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Sunset, Night, Darkness

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