Quotation Explorer - 'Wounds'

I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy,why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life. - Janet Fitch
Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress. - David W. Earle
the sapphire depthof my own love...startlesand warmsand wounds my soul. - Sanober Khan
Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman
War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. - Samuel Moyn
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. - Aisha Mirza
There is an incredible beauty in your touch, it can heal the gravest wounds. And in your smile, that can easily mend any broken heart. - Luan
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. - Gordon Atkinson
Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Time heals all wounds. - Terence
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. - Menander
Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart. - Shannon L. Alder
In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along - Billy Joel
I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human. - D. Antoinette Foy
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. - Randy K. Milholland
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. - Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
الوقت لا يلئم الجراح، بل الحبtime does not heal wounds, love does - Wafaa Nowaihed
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht
What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing. - Ann Marie Aguilar
That which wounds, shall heal. - Apollo
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. - Andrew Carnegie
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. - John Muir
Let go of your pain and heal your wounds. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome. - Tina Samples
I rip out my wings I so I can't be free, I rip up my wounds so it doesn't heal, if I rip out my heart does this mean I can't feel - Joyce Guo
Happiness isn’t about pretending there’s no pain. It’s about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience. - Vironika Tugaleva
Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot 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
Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe. - Staci Backauskas
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - John Andrew Holmes
I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL! - Shine
But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars. - Rudy Schwartz (Joe Newman)
The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Courage creates and makes more wounds, but its good for the brave and not the strong ones without wisdom. - Auliq Ice
I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds. - Hugo Wolf
As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended. - David W. Earle
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. - Steve Maraboli
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises. - Donna Lynn Hope
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Anaïs Nin
I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best - Tobias Wolff
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them. - Shannon L. Alder
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. - Kedar Joshi
Some People Think That Only The Wounds That Appear On External Parts Of Body Cause PainBut they Don't Know That When Heart Gets Hurt That Won't Appear To The Outside World Only The Person Who Suffers The Pain Will Know about It ! - Nithin Kumar
Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On - Manprit Kaur
My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should. - Hubert Martin
Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve! - Shannon L. Alder
We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places - Rachel Thompson
Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them. - Nikki Rowe
Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them. - Chris Burkmenn
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story. - Tamyara Brown
your mother is the longest magic show you will ever seeno one knows how her face is target practice for her partner and a shield for her childrenhow she makes a mouthful of blood disappearerases bruiseshardens teethhow she wakes up and dresses her children beforedressing her wounds - Nia Afyah
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. - Pascal Mercier
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques. - Rami Ollaik
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. - John Milton
carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough. - Nikki Rowe
Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds. - Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis
Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer - Munia Khan
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done! - V.C. Andrews
Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive. - Debasish Mridha
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
Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts. - Ken Page
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls. - Lucan
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them. - Joyce Rachelle
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. - David Richo
Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey
wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life. - Kishore Bansal
Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds. - Vironika Tugaleva
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space. We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved. - Nikita Dudani
The heart is a rare, unique treasure because it is strong and vulnerable at the same time. It is strong in its persistence to sustain life, yet it is vulnerable to both emotional and physical wounds. - Imania Margria
There are various wounds to describe our hurts;the deepest one is the most painful. - Munia Khan
But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed. - Subcomandante Marcos
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love - Clive Barker
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. - Abraham Lincoln
The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful. - Stacey Culpepper
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside. - Durgesh Satpathy
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. - Aldo Leopold
Wounds are like water set to boil they heal best left unwatched... - Gabrielle Zevin
The positive energy and love we give to others, heals our own wounds. - Angie karan
Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear. - Ai Yazawa
Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored. - Musawir Masood
Hit me with spit on the wounds. - Gwen Calvo
The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the TREE So that we might die to sin and live for righteousness By His wounds you have been healed - Anonymous
Acknowledge your inner child. Even though we have found the light in ourselves today, we sometimes forget to heal old wounds of our past. Your inner child still needs to be loved in order to heal the complete self. - Karen A. Baquiran
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. - Hugh Elliott
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way. - Francis of Assisi
Time heals all wounds. Unless they're infected. Like gangrene. That shit'll kill you. - Johnny Moscato
The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds. - Anthony Liccione
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. - Rabindranath Tagore
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. - George Gordon Byron
You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise. - Jason Gray
Should we hold back from loving people because we carry the wounds of a few? - Sydney Scrogham
Paranormal romance gives me the opportunity to explore love outside of its traditional boundaries. Common themes are hunger and uncontrollable desires, but I like to push further into wounds that cannot be healed and the way love can still find its way into the cracks of a fractured soul. - Stephanie Draven
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. - Alan Paton
A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds. - Sanober Khan
Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san - CLAMP
Oblivion cures the old wounds. - Dejan Stojanovic
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue. - Idries Shah
They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human emotions. - Emily Thorne
Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will. - Orrin Woodward
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But, it is never gone.
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
What door is opened into soul through our wounds. - James Hillman
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. - Moliere
Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy. - Lailah Gifty Akita
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. - Barack Obama
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
Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds. - Marty Rubin
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds... - Leigh Hunt
Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you. - Sue Fitzmaurice
God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. - Emery Allen
May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain. - Bryant McGill
Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing. - Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them. - Vironika Tugaleva
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