Wound Quotes

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Mind, Evil, Friend

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

Patience, Poor, Heal

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Forgive, Easy

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Hard, May

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, Vanity, Hardest

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Ourselves, Within, Unity

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews

Nature, Beautiful, Hurt

Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

Forget, Keep, Dead

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Small, Danger

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey

Time, Friend, May

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

Broken, Word, Forever

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield

Time, Successful, Stress

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

Die, Honor, Ten

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt

Mind, Down, Running

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran

Born, Deadly, Disease

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

Heart, May, Broken

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady Gaga

Music, Time, Write

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
Courtney Love

Wanted, John, Paul

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
Shia LaBeouf

Money, Car, Mind

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

Power, Lost, Before

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Cher

Words, Sometimes, Weapons

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
Gregg Allman

Said, Write, Songs

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett

Great, Place, Orleans

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Edward Koch

Life, Clean, Raw

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart

Reality, Dead, While

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
Hank Azaria

Mind, Someone, Real

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Buffalo Bill

Home, Father, Help

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
Betty White

Life, Love, Business

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Donald Cargill

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