Wounds Quotes - Page 30

• The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

  James Balog

  Beautiful, Real, Iceland

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• Do not enforce the tired wolf
  Dragging his infected wound homeward
  To sit tonight with the warm children
  Naming the pretty kings of France.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Kings, Children, Tired

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

  Lawrence Durrell

  Kissing, Lovers, Unsaid

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.377, Faber & Faber

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• My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Love Is, Important, Needs

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• The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  Responsibility, Details, Fundamentals

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• One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

  Klaus Mann

  Wind, Today, Becoming

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• Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Love Is, Sometimes, Time Love

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.28, Granta Books

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• One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

  Graham Hawkes

  Religious, Justice, Darkness

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• Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Secret, Teach, Disguise

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• We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Hurt, Mirrors

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• On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere:
  ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a great many revolutions that a kind of concave sphere is displayed, having the same center as the Sun, just as by a great many circles of silken thread, linked with each other and wound together, the dwelling of a silkworm is made.

  Johannes Kepler

  Circles, Dwelling, Together

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• Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

  R. K. Milholland

  Winning, Glasses, Race

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• We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

  William O. Douglas

  War, Power, Years

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• The last faint spark
  In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
  dark,
  The wounds of the baited bear,--
  The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
  On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Dark, Self

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Healthy, States, Tendencies

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• I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Atoms, May

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Real, Sorrow, Rays

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• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Son, Love Is

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• I see a redness suddenly come
  Into the evening's anxious breast--
  'Tis the wound of love goes home!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Evening, Anxious

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Learning, Hands, Giving

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• Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Grief, Healing, Emotion

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• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Self, Doe, Dearest Friend

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• Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Friendship, Want

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• Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

  Martin Amis

  Spiritual, Needs

  1987 In the Observer, 30 Aug.

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