Wounded Quotes - Page 11

• So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin

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• Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Pride, Night, Men

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• Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

  Barbara Bush

  Veterans Day, Work, Home

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• Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Information, Enough

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.25, David C Cook

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• We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Taken, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1113, Bantam

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

  Al Franken

  Warrior, Men, Iraq

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Quests, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Essentials, Way

  Paul Auster (2010). “Sunset Park: A Novel”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

  George Eliot

  Kissing, Forgotten, Empty

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Children, Father, Said

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.182, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Bird, Get Better

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

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• I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Strong, Real

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

  Self, Armor, Slave

  Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Canadians are so easily wounded.

  Tucker Carlson

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• We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

  John Green

  Love You, Missing, Battle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

  Robert Carlyle

  Art, Acting, Magnet

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

  Tyne Daly

  Inspirational, Battle, Shooting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

  Lena Dunham

  Acting, Balls, Wonderland

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

  Buffalo Bill

  Father, Home, Leaving

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Men, Tree

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Equal Pay, People

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• It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Sick, Risk

  "Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church". www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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