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Quotes About Wound

And so we lie on our backs, probing, recoiling, probing again, and the seeds of death get lost in the mess God made us. It's no different with the girls. Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it's a wound at all.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it's a wound at all. It might just as well be a mouth, which is as wet and as warm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Anger is a wound gone mad.
~ Vanna Bonta
The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.
~ Peter Kreeft
Inexplicable music that should have sounded joyful but was instead wound full of the darkness emotions you know.
~ Peter Straub
Rouged green lips part like a gangrened wound.
~ Philip José Farmer
There is a sermon in the fact that the gates are pearl. [Because] heaven is entered through suffering and travail, through redemption and blood, through the agony of the cross. A pearl is a jewel made by a little animal that is wounded. Without the wound, the pearl is never formed.5
~ David Jeremiah
Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw centre, to reimagine our relation to it.
~ David Whyte
Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.
~ Dean Koontz
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
~ Confucius
Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed
~ Connie Zweig
I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain.
~ Cristina García
but the worst injury was on her back, just inside of her left clavicle—a nasty puncture wound.
~ Jim Butcher
It's like a knife wound, but bigger." "That's probably because it was done with something like a knife, but bigger." "A sword? You've got to be kidding me.
~ Jim Butcher
And I had a hole in my chest that was going to take time to heal. But after a lot of time, and hurt, it would heal.
~ Jim Butcher
cleanly as the plow wounded it, and the scorching sun burned a healing scab over the wound. Keeping intent eyes on both mules and waiting for the fly to bite, Joe was not one man but two. One of them felt a soul-filling
~ Unknown
The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.
~ Virgil
It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
~ Vito Acconci
Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
~ Walter Scott
Death laid its eggs in the wound
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
evacuar en público era angustioso o imposible; un trauma para el que nuestra civilización no nos prepara, una herida profunda en la dignidad humana, un atentado obsceno y lleno de malos presagios, pero también la señal de una perversidad deliberada y gratuita.
~ Primo Levi
A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
~ R. Scott Bakker
a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.
~ Dean Koontz