Wounds Quotes - Page 27

• The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
  obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.32, Penguin

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• Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

  Steve Tisch

  Thinking, Errors, Judgment

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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• Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

  Moliere

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

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• Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love Is, Self, Hands

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• The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Self, People, Amiable

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

  Honore de Balzac

  France, Injury, Remedy

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• Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cat, Blood, Maids

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• The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Self Love, Turns

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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• There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Children, Hate, Pride

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• I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Jobs, Motivation

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• I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Growing Up, Two Friends, Dancing

  "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
  That would reduce these bloody days again
  And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
  Let them not live to taste this land's increase
  That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
  Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
  That she may long live here, God say amen!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.559

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• The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Invisible, Cupid

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

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• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Iron, Suffering

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• By music minds an equal temper know,
  Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
  . . . .
  Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
  Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Warrior, Fire

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

  Michael Douglas

  Saving, Rehab

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• Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

  Kevin Hart

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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• One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Wounds And Scars, Hands, Choices

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• Be - fight - feel the pain - and love the wounds!

  Antoni Lange

  Pain, Fighting, And Love

  "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.

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• [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

  Barbara Neely

  Family, Air, Secret

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• as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Sleep, Brain, Needs

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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