Quotes and Sayings about Wounds
"Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them."
- Shaun Alexander
(Related: Time, Wounds)
"Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin."
- Tori Amos
(Related: People, Wounds)
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Man, Revenge, Wounds)
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Man, Revenge, Wounds)
"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays."
- Michael Baden
(Related: Experience, People, Failure, Holidays, Learning, Wounds)
"I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole."
- Robert Barany
(Related: People, Humanity, Will, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Battle, Blood, First, Wounds)
"There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Anger, Work, Bitterness, Wounds)
"Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Opportunity, Committee, Leaders, Privilege, Responsibility, Succeed, Veterans, Wounds)
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Honor, Self, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Dogs, Quiet, World, Wounds)
"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Power, Habit, Fatigue, Pain, Wounds)
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
- Georges Duhamel
(Related: Battle, Wounds)
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Family, Quarrels, Rules, Skin, Wounds)
"Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Country, Credit, Wounds)
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
- Helen Garner
(Related: Wounds)
"What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Heart, May, Wounds)
"As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: War, Europe, Iraq, President, states, United, Wounds)
"God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill."
- William Gurnall
(Related: God, Cure, Kisses, Sin, Wounds)
"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."
- Charlton Heston
(Related: Society, Wounds)
"In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: War, Nation, United, World, World war, Wounds)
"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."
- John Andrew Holmes
(Related: Love, War, Peace, Wounds)
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Action, Body, Depression, Wounds)
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
- Horace
(Related: Fools, Shame, Wounds)
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Funny, Life, Commitment, Sincerity, Wounds)
"We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that."
- Ian St. John
(Related: Hope, Hurt, Wounds)
"The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people."
- Peter King
(Related: Religion, People, Mosque, Deep, Opinion, Practice, Public, Public opinion, Right, Saying, Wounds)
"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Healing, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Work, God, Charity, Firmness, Malice, Nation, Right, Wounds)
"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Passion, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Blood, Eye, Right, Wounds)
"Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls."
- Marcus Annaeus Lucan
(Related: Deep, Wounds)
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: War, Peace, Wounds)
"Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly."
- Janet Malcolm
(Related: Will, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Love, Nature, Faults, Idleness, Man, Neglect, Pleasure, Pursuit, Wounds)
"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."
- Menander
(Related: Body, Mind, Words, Wounds)
"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
- John Milton
(Related: Revenge, Wounds)
"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision."
- Ho Chi Minh
(Related: Government, Decision, Positive, Veterans, Vietnam, Want, Wounds)
"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Women, Consequences, Wit, Wounds)
"I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination."
- Rebecca De Mornay
(Related: Acting, Healing, Will, Wounds)
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Power, War, Lies, Spirit, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Love, Death, Blindness, Errors, Illness, Wounds)
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
- Henri Nouwen
(Related: Advice, Giving, Pain, Wounds)
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
- Novalis
(Related: Poetry, Reason, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Life, America, Battle, Iraq, Now, Result, Service, Soldiers, Will, Wounds)
"Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars."
- Roy Orbison
(Related: Love, Wounds)
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Sheep, Wounds)
"The defects and faults of 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, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Body, Care, Danger, Faults, Mind, Skin, Will, Wounds)
"The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again."
- Steve Ross
(Related: Heart, Church, Right, Wounds)
"But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties."
- Hjalmar Schacht
(Related: Peace, War, People, Memory, Wounds)
"Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Love, Hatred, Violence, Wounds)
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Love, Wounds)
"We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting."
- Mao Tse Tung
(Related: Fighting, Wounds)
"Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright."
- Edward Burnett Tylor
(Related: Men, Wounds)
"Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses."
- John Warner
(Related: War, America, Effort, Freedom, Nation, World, Wounds)
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Earth, Wounds)
"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
(Related: Power, Work, Heart, Community, Nation, Wounds)
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
- Oprah Winfrey
(Related: Wisdom, Wounds)
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
- George Woodcock
(Related: Discipline, Boys, English, School, Spirit, Wounds)
"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."
- Cole Younger
(Related: Wounds)