Quotation Explorer - 'Wound'

Kindness can heal a wound that medicine can't touch. - Debasish Mridha
Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield. - Shannon L. Alder
A wound on Heart is something that can not be treated by any medicine, but can be treated by sweet words. - Srinivas Shenoy
Writing exacerbates a wound. - Marty Rubin
The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself - Han Kang, The Vegetarian
There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive? - Donna Lynn Hope
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart. - Jerome K. Jerome
I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change. - Nikki Rowe
It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing. - Marty Rubin
A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom. - Debasish Mridha
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka
The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone. - Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib R.A
No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed. - Matthew Henry
Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. - Nizar Qabbani
She was our guardian angel. Lucy saved us from mystery. Without her, our marriage would be ruined. Her disappearance created an open wound that we can't fix but the most devasting reality is probably the fact that her body will never be found. She is a living ghost in Wilmington, North Carolina. - Chloé Danielo
What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? - Anne Carson
She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ... - John Updike
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. - William Hazlitt
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. - William Shakespeare
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. - Margaret Cavendish
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red. - Eiichiro Oda
I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love. - Jay Woodman
to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes. - Sanober Khan
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. - Sebastian Junger
Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless. - Matshona Dhliwayo
My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. - Gottfried Benn
Lighter is the wound foreseen. - Cato the Elder
A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. - Nizar Qabbani
Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own. - Linda Berdoll
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare
ALL things great are wound up with all things little. - L. M. Montgomery
I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. - Augustine of Hippo
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage. - Mitch Albom
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. - Scottish Proverb
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
A soul wound doesn't grow a new layer of normality overnight" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy'Secret - hlbalcomb
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen. - Hiro Mashima
She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur - Isabelle Hardesty
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. - Jalaluddin Rumi
I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought. What is it that we spent and what was it we bought? - Frank Herbert
Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. SinceI fell inside your soul. Don’t you know that by now, Quinn? - Alyssa Day
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare
Turn your past wound of misery and sadness into a wonder of life. - Debasish Mridha
brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on. - Sylvia Plath
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. - Mineko Iwasaki
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso
Music can touch and heal that secret wound of the soul which nothing else can reach. - Debasish Mridha
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water. - Colleen Houck
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. - C.S. Lewis
Not a scar just psychological,But as material as roaches,Street corners and billy clubs. A wound reopened systematically,Inflicted with economic anarchy And "No Help Wanted" signs. - Cabrini Gulag
Secret 3963. It’s only a sucking chest wound if you’re not the shooter. - The Covert Comic
there isn't a slightest wound that doesn't hurt in the heart. - Sandra Pulido
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows. - Sathya Sai Baba
Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. - Kahlil Gibran
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. - George Gordon Byron
But they promised us everyone would return someday…when it was safe. Her voice cracked at the end.You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say. Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound. - TC Avey
... I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now. - Claire North
A simple touch of kindness can heal a wound of the soul which no medicine can touch. - Debasish Mridha
I have learned that I should be careful with the words I choose to say when I am angry because later, those words always leave a huge wound of regrets in my heart besides hurting the loved ones. Those wounds can't be healed! - Nino Varsimashvili
There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. - Bill Murray
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving. - Jane Hamilton
Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail. - Homer
As a man thinketh so is he? The faith of a mustard seed? I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality. - N'Zuri Za Austin
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. - Lady Gaga
Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed. - Munia Khan
Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. - Gregory Maguire
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! - Sir Walter Scott
Before you act, think.Before you speak, listen.Before you take, give.Before you scorn, empathize.Before you condemn, forgive.Before you wound, love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. - Confucius
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love. - Shannon L. Alder
The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom. - Sadghuru
Tell me, Mr. Bennet, how can we amuse you during your visit? Do you hunt? Lady Catherine was spooning her turtle soup, blowing delicately to cool it.I am certain an animal would sooner die of laughter than gunshot wound if I even made the attempt. - Karen V. Wasylowski
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. - Harry Crews
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