Wounds Quotes - Page 30

• Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Life, Hero, Uniforms

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.171, Soho Press

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• Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

  Erwin McManus

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• The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds

  Hugo Wolf

  Heart, Sleep, Soul

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• I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

  Joy Davidman

  Sight, Joy, Doe

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• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

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• Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Spiritual, Mean

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• I loved you for a long, long time
  I know this love is real
  It don't matter how it all went wrong
  That don't change the way I feel
  And I can't believe that time's
  Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of
  There ain't no cure for love

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Real, Believe

  Song: Ain't No Cure For Love, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love.

  Ken Wilber

  Love, Running, Hurt

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• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Passion, Sleep

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• O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mistake, Moving, Heart

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• Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Inspiring Love, Mouths

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• Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

  Aldous Huxley

  Time, Blood, World

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• Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

  Thomas Willis

  Fall, Animal, Understanding

  Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490

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• When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

  Pema Chodron

  Giving, Addiction, Scratches

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• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Funny, Writing, Commitment

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• Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.

  Wilfred Owen

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Summer, Lying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Knives, Losing, Lost

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 240 (on Thomas Love Peacock)

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• Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

  John Milton

  Earth, Woe, Losing

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 780

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• I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Night, Names, Wish

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• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Learning, Men

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.418, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

  Griffin Dunne

  Memories, Actors, Hunger

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Sweet, Jesus, Soul

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• The wounds I carry, she carries them too. The unshed tears in my head flow through her heart too .

  Ma-Roo

  Drama, Heart, Tears

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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