Wounds Quotes - Page 36

• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cycling, Solitary, Racers

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• At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

  Marion Woodman

  Surrender, Vulnerability

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Fall, Men, Might

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• No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

  Matthew Henry

  Given, Remedy

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Genesis”, p.101, Bible Study Books

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• Time doesn't heal wounds; it only watches them take different
  shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came
  from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds
  comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to
  the deep places and bring healing.

  Robert Whitlow

  Jesus, Real, Healing

  Robert Whitlow (2017). “A Robert Whitlow Collection: The Trial, The Sacrifice, The List”, p.417, Thomas Nelson

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• Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

  Stephen King

  Teeth, Poet, Bites

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• We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

  Pope Francis

  Healing, Needs, News

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.56, A&C Black

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• But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Feet

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

  Patti Smith

  Artist

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• Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Thinking, Enlightenment

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 19, 2013

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• Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

  Francis Quarles

  Dresses, Language, Injury

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• Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

  Pope Francis

  Humanity, Body, Christ

  Address of Pope Francis to participants in the International Conference on Combating Human Trafficking, w2.vatican.va. April 10, 2014.

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• Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

  Michael Jackson

  Ignorance, Hatred, Prejudice

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• Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

  Steve Tisch

  Thinking, Errors, Judgment

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• There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.

  LeCrae

  Believe, People, Way

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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• Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

  Moliere

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

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• Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love Is, Self, Hands

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

  Honore de Balzac

  France, Injury, Remedy

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• Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cat, Blood, Maids

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• The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Self Love, Turns

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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