Wounds Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, God, Nation

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

Love, Death, Natural

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Others

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, War, Lies

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Green, Keeps

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

Work, Power, Heart

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Passion, Leave, Foolish

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
Demi Lovato

Beautiful, Strong, Battle

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos

Find, Try, Afraid

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family, Enough, Won

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

Wise, Away, Whole

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Depression, Cannot, Themselves

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Care, After

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Power, Pain

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
Allen Boyd

Work, Anger, Hard

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace

Try, False, Fools

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Green, Heal

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter

Soldier, Seaman, Stories

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

Poetry, Reason, Heals

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton

Revenge, Green, Heal

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew Carnegie

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
Roy Orbison

Love, Hurts, Scars

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
T. D. Jakes

God, Past, Busy

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Publilius Syrus

Love, Made, Healed

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
John Olver

Life, Good, Emotional

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

Love, Peace, War

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
David Cameron

Great, History, Future

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Fighting, Dead, Shall

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