Wounds Quotes - Page 39

• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sheep, Wind, Soldier

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• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Language, Human Nature

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• Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

  Dennis Quaid

  Jobs, Perfect, Three

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  Walter Scott

  Broken Heart, Archer, May

  'The Lord of the Isles' (1813) canto 5, st. 18

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• When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

  Junior Seau

  Sports, Running, Jobs

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• I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Self, Who I Am

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• Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Hatred, Violence

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• When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

  Jeremy Sumpter

  Kids, World, Peter

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

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Pain, Heart, May

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.751, 谷月社

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• but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

  Dean Young

  Rain, Taken, Clouds

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

  Ludwig Borne

  Doe, Would Be, Rust

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• Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Communication, Home

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• I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

  Margaret Atwood

  Coward, Saint, Cripples

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doors, Psychics, Understanding

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• when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

  P. C. Cast

  Kindness, Body, Thrill

  P. C. Cast (2011). “Goddess Of The Sea: Number 1 in series”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Taken, Grief, Heart

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.293, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

  Leif Enger

  Children, Miracle, Looks

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Hurt, Eye

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1075, Random House

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• I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

  Jean Cocteau

  Liberty, Willing

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• no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Love Is, Long

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2390, Delphi Classics

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• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

  Aldo Leopold

  Believe, Doctors, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

  Gloria Naylor

  Stars, Moon, Hands

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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