Wounds Quotes - Page 25

• Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

  Charlton Heston

  Tragedy, Comedy, Wells

  Interview with Ken Masugi, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.

  Billy Joel

  Strong, Heart, Past

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• I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Healing, Thinking, Illumination

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• Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Spirit, Stills

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• Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.

  Tammara Webber

  Tattoo, Battle Wounds, Escaping

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• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.

  Linda Gregerson

  Book, Soul, Quality

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• To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

  Annie Dillard

  Coffee, Useless, Tiny

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• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Pain, Doe

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications

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• Lighter is the wound foreseen.

  Cato the Elder

  Fame, Lighters, Foreseen

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• The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

  Aulus Gellius

  Vigor, Spirit, Increase

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• Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Mother, Hurt

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• I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences.

  Horacio A. Tenorio

  Friendship, Teacher, Sweet

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• It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Bears, Enough

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
  And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
  Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
  Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Blood, Wings

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.33

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• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

  Horace

  Health, Exercise, Trying

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

  Malcolm X

  Healing, America, Ethnicity

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• There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Affliction, Fellowship

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.242

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• For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

  Dan B. Allender

  Fall, Humility, Leader

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.70, WaterBrook

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• We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

  Wangari Maathai

  Diversity, Needs, Earth

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Women, Next, Bandages

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• I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

  Hugo Wolf

  Depression, Heart, Sleep

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• Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

  Paul Hawken

  Party, Healing, Persistence

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  Cheri Huber

  Children, Inspiration, Bravery

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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