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Quotes About Wounds

Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.
~ Stephen King
Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.
~ Stephen King
Actions win wars. Actions heal wounds. Not words. Words are cheap. Mine, particularly. -Drew Evans.
~ Emma Chase, Tangled
Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant
~ both victim and aggressor.
These words are razors to my wounded heart.
~ William Shakespeare
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
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
I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
~ Andy Rooney
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
~ William Shakespeare
'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds.
~ Gemma Galgani
Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.
~ Jeff Buckley
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
~ Jonathan Nolan
Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.
~ Emma Forrest
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself
~ English proverb
All battles leave deep wounds, whether you can see them or not. And wounds take time to heal. You know that, Dovewing. Don't give up hope.
~ Erin Hunter
Crowfeather might almost have thought that his son was dead, except for the faint rise and fall of his chest and the blood that was still trickling from his belly wound and many others.
~ Erin Hunter
All battles leave deep wounds, whether you can see them or not. And wounds take time to heal.
~ Erin Hunter
I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.
~ Gillian Flynn
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Time is a membrane, a connective tissue, and it can be bruised. Time can't heal all wounds:Time is all wounds. Only love and forgiveness heal all wounds
~ Gregory David Roberts
The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.
~ Serena Valentino
The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.
~ Sextus Propertius
The scars and wounds will heal, and even fate will listen to intent when you move a few dancing steps
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
For every wound, the ointment of time.
~ Sharon Kay Penman