Wounded Quotes

• They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Love, Men, History

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Courage, Honesty

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• You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

  Michael Connelly

  Soul, Band, Ptsd

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Heart, Cups

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 15, 2014

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• A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Acknowledgement, Weeping

  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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• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Adversity, Writing

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• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Heart, Knees, Wounded Knee

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Land, Roots

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anger, Heart, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Hands, Quiet Heart

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• The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

  Ovid

  Fighting, Arms, Forget

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• Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Snakes, Evil, Satan

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• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

  Helen Keller

  Eagles, Hands, Skills

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.

  Caroline Myss

  Wise, Block, Moving

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• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wounds And Scars, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tired, Blood

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• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Physicians, Heal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

  Jeannette Walls

  Order, Bleeding, Firsts

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.

  Mark Sanford

  Strong, War, Home

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Army, Soldier

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• Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

  Glenda Millard

  Book, Home, Needs

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