Wounds Quotes - Page 28

• Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Blood, Doe, Dry

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• Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

  Jeff Buckley

  Alone Time, Heal, Me Alone

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• Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

  Steven Pressfield

  Goal, Resistance, Aim

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.15, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

  Caroline Myss

  Self, Expression, People

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.7, Harmony

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• We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

  Caroline Myss

  Order, People, Use

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.209, Harmony

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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• Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

  Pete Wilson

  God Heals, Heal

  Pete Wilson (2013). “Let Hope in: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Distance, Silence

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• The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

  Mark Lowry

  Self, Forgotten, Figs

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• Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Skins, Vineyards

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Eye, House

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Awkward, Flesh, Threatening

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Airports, Sheep, Feelings

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

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• This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

  Ally Condie

  Honesty, Cutting, Balance

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

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• Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Hands, Long

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• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

  Larry Crabb

  Mistake, Healing, Psych

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• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Memories, Past

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• Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Old Wounds, Heal

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• One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 05, 2015

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• Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Children, Pain

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• We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

  David Rakoff

  Kissing, Together, Contact

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• Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

  Susie Bright

  Magic, Disappear, Made

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.

  Mabel Collins

  Heart, Eye, Blood

  Mabel Collins, Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Light on the Path: Light on the Path: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.7, Weiser Books

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