Quotes with wounds

  • Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
  • 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.
  • The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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  • Rabindranath Tagore 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
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Rose Kennedy 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 Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Beth Ditto Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • John McCain I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Marianne Williamson In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Stephen King Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Nicholas Boileau Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Georges Bataille The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Sextus Propertius The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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