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Quotes About Wound

You tend a wound nearly as well as you dance. Her blue-gray gaze flicked up to his, wide with surprise. I wasn't sure if you recognized me from the ball. This was intimate, her face so close to his. He naked and she with the upper slopes of her breasts uncovered. He felt hazy with desperate temptation. He could smell her, above the scent of his own blood- a faint flower scent. Not cedarwood, thank God. You're hard to forget, he murmured.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Your phantasmagoric wound has closed.
~ Alice Notley
You were sick, so sick, with your wound of thwarted longing
~ Alice Notley
The edges of your wound surround a void
~ Alice Notley
The hurt's the same. The wound never heals. The details never fade.
~ Alison Gaylin
How is your injury?" Dominic asks. "My what?" It says a lot about me that I don't even notice the ache of a stab wound anymore, that a part of me is so utterly immune to pain. "It's fine. I mean, it hurts. But I'm used to that.
~ Ally Carter
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.
~ Richard Sibbes
He had torn a ragged wound in it, laying open its moist white meat, but it wouldn't break, it wouldn't give, and it made the children laugh each time the shovel bounced and rang in his hands. The delicate noise of their laughter, the look of their tulip-soft skin and of their two sunny skulls, as fragile as eggshell, made a terrible contrast to the feel of biting steel and shuddering pulp, and it was his sense of this that made his eyes commit a distortion of truth.
~ Richard Yates
And in response, I had stored up reserves of I'll show you anger. That's a particular kind of anger. When you feel like someone wouldn't let you be you, it strikes at the core of who you are. And that sacred wound can animate all kinds of action. There's a ton of activating energy there.
~ Rob Bell
Cynicism says, There's nothing new to make here. Often, cynicism presents itself as wisdom, but it usually comes from a wound.
~ Rob Bell
A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound.
~ Robert A. Johnson
Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness.
~ Robert A. Johnson
In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.
~ Paul Virilio
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.
~ Eiichir? Oda
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
~ Mitch Albom
Every work of art stems from a wound in the soul of the artist. When a person is hurt, his immune system comes into operation, and a self-healing process takes place, mental and physical." He called art "a psychological component of the auto-immune system that gives expression to the healing process.
~ Yehuda Koren
A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.
~ Yukio Mishima
That is because the most subtle and delicate wishes of evil are not for a physical wound but for a spiritual.
~ Yukio Mishima
To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.
~ Kei Miller, Augustown
No one can wound us more than those supposed to nurture: our parents, our spouses, our churches. The chasm between expectation and reality is particularly grim in supposed safe places.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Kicked my ass is what he did," Zander said as he laid towels around the wound. "Embarrassing. Polar bear Shifters are the biggest predators alive, and I let a tiger kick my butt.
~ Jennifer Ashley
A cesarean section is a wound that impedes normal digestive function, function that must resume following surgery. Breast milk is delayed. Seven layers of tissue and muscle are severed.
~ Jennifer Block
Heiress you wound me" Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes