Wounds Quotes - Page 37

• Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Reason, Heal

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• Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

  Bob Cox

  Expectations, Relax, Anticipation

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

  Cher

  Weapons, Sometimes

  Song: If I Could Turn Back Time, Album: Heart of Stone, 1989

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• America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

  John Olver

  Emotional, Battle Wounds, Iraq

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• Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

  Roy Orbison

  Short Love, Hurt, Sadness

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• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sheep, Wind, Soldier

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• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

  Gloria Naylor

  Stars, Moon, Hands

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Romance

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Disappointment, Loss, Desire

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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• In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Hurt, Real, Nice

  "The Secret Life of Bees". Book by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001.

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Plato, War, Mean

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

  Henri Nouwen

  Giving Up, Healing, Grace

  "The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen".

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• My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Healing, Blood

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Thinking, Scary

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• I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.

  Terry Goodkind

  Children, Fighting, Hands

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.185, Head of Zeus

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• For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

  Frantz Fanon

  Violence, Achilles, Heal

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• That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

  Alice Miller

  Mourning, Narcissistic, Heal

  Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books

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• Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
  Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
  Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dark, Water, Watches

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.44

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• Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Self, Unity, Vietnam

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ears, Mouths, Slander

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• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Illusion

  Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus

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