Wounds Quotes - Page 24

• Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Arrows, People, Enemy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

  Rachel Caine

  Crush, Fire, Blood

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires”, p.215, Penguin

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• Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Childhood, Catharsis

  "Surreal Life". Interview with John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Mind, Age, Stronger

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• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.57, Random House

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• Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Two

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• There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

  Henri

  Pain, Two, Want

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• Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

  Philip Yancey

  Hurt, Church, Body

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.

  Renita J. Weems

  Forever, Stronger, Bears

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Clunk all wound up and ready to go!

  RaeLynn

  Ready

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• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  Ella Leya

  Dirty, Humanity, Shadow

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Rain, Dio

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.111, Lulu.com

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• Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Mean, Caring

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.204, Harmony

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• Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Giving, Doe

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• If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out

  Denver Moore

  Strong, Ems, Sticks

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• Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Love You, Deep Love, Depth

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• I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

  Susan Wiggs

  Love Of My Life, Focus, I Love My Life

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Dad, Writing, Editors

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• Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Lying, Cutting, Darkness

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

  Sivananda

  Past, Mind, Battle

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• Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.

  Pierre Bayle

  Philosophy, Errors, Stopping

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• Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Rip, Book, White

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print, and even mount and frame the result of its excursion, so that there will be nothing for us to do but to send it to the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition and gratefully to receive the 'Royal Medal'.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

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