quotes about Wounds
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
-- Al Pacino -
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
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I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
-- Andy Rooney -
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
-- Anne PerrySource : Anne Perry (2006). “Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel”, p.236, Ballantine Books
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
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Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
-- Clive Barker -
I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.
-- Conrad AikenSource : Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.23, Oxford University Press on Demand
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We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.
-- Danielle Steel -
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
-- Dave FoleySource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 15, 2009.
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
-- Dave WinfieldSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.
-- Demi MooreSource : Demi Moore & Amanda De Cadenet: In Conversation, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2012.
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Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
-- Dennis PotterSource : Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”
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God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).
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We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.
-- Douglas KennedySource : Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.1150, Simon and Schuster
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One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
-- Edmond JabesSource : Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.67, University of Chicago Press
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
-- Edward AlbeeSource : Edward Albee (2004). “The Play about the Baby”, Methuen Publishing
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
-- Ellis PetersSource : Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus
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Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
-- Erwin McManus -
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
-- Etty HillesumSource : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.550, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics
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If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.
-- Haruki Murakami -
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
-- Helen Garner -
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
-- Isobelle Carmody -
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
-- Italo Svevo -
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
-- James FreySource : James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.270, Anchor
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I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.
-- Joë Bousquet -
Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.
-- John Crowe RansomSource : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
-- John EldredgeSource : John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc
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The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.
-- Joy Browne -
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
-- Juvenal -
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
-- Karl Kraus -
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
-- Kazuo IshiguroSource : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Feb 02, 2013
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Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.
-- Ken PageSource : Ken Page (2014). “Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy”, p.28, Shambhala Publications
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No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
-- Leslie JamisonSource : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.9, Granta Books
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
-- Marie LuSource : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.143, Penguin
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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 WoodmanSource : Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”
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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.
-- Miguel Angel Ruiz -
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.
-- Oswald Chambers -
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
-- Ovid -
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.
-- Paul ChristopherSource : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.87, Penguin
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Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.
-- Pete WilsonSource : Pete Wilson (2013). “Let Hope in: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc
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...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.
-- Peter DavidSource : Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.
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Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,
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The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.
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It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
-- Ricardo Lagos -
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Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.
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... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
-- Robert BlySource : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.30, Da Capo Press
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Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
-- SaadiSource : Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.150, Innovations and Information
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There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
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Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
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For every wound, the ointment of time.
-- Sharon Kay PenmanSource : Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “Falls the Shadow: A Novel”, p.32, Macmillan
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Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.
-- Shaun Alexander -
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
-- Sophocles -
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Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.
-- Stephen Schwartz -
Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.
-- T. B. Joshua -
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
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Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
-- Warsan Shire -
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -
It was very hard to revisit a part of my life in the In the Land of Blood and Honey movie, which I thought had been buried deep down in my soul. To go back to where we were, twenty years ago, it was painful. I knew it would open up old wounds.
-- Goran KosticSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Wounds simply won't heal if they are swept under the carpet.
-- Payam Akhavan -
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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
-- Bradford CoxSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.
-- Edward KowalczykSource : Source: www.alternativenation.net
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
-- Roland Barthes -