Wounds Quotes - Page 9

• No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Imagination

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Betrayal, Gone, Remains

  Joyce Carol Oates (2010). “Little Bird of Heaven”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, Practice, Two

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Pain, Memories, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 07, 2012

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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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• The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Dresses, Needs

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1508, Dell

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• Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human. No matter how deep his wound, he does not need to be ashamed in front of me. I too am vulnerable. And because of this, I am enough. Whatever his story, he no longer needs to be alone with it. This is what will allow his healing to begin. (Carl Rogers)

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Men, Humanity

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• Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Son, Saying Goodbye

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Healing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Relax, Alive

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• I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Running, Mistake, Ocean

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• The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Opposites, Pro Life, Abortion

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With The Authorities And The Diplomatic Corps in Hofburg, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 7, 2007.

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• I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long Ago, Order, Faces

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2014

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• It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

  Anne Carson

  People, Together, Stories

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.228, Vintage

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• Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Eye, Hands

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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• Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

  Philip Sington

  Heart, Desire, Duration

  Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.62, Random House

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• Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Heart, Cat

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• If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Evil, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• “Time-out,” I said... He twisted his hand around and wound his fingers into mine. “You‘re putting me in time-out?” “Yes,” I said as a shaky sigh slid through my lips. “If I don't go, do I get a spanking?”

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Lips, Twisted

  "Second Grave on the Left". Book by Darynda Jones, August 2, 2011.

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• Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

  William P. Young

  Hurt, Pain, Son

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

  Stephen Fry

  Hurt, Broken, Stronger

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.101, Soho Press

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• You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Cutting, Broken, Laughing

  "The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden". Book by Jessica Sorensen, March 19, 2013.

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• I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

  Robert Walser

  Pain, Smart, Blood

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wrinkles, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.355

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• Movement from Brenda grabbed Thomas's attention. He looked to see her drop the knife away from Minho and step back, absently wiping the small trace of blood there on her pants. "I really would've killed you, ya know," she said in a slightly scratchy voice. Almost husky. "Charge Jorge again and I'll sever an artery." Minho wiped at his small wound with his thumb, then looked at the bright red smear. "That's one sharp knife. Makes me like you more.

  James Dashner

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.165, Delacorte Press

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