Wounds Quotes

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

~ Euripides

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.

~ Emery Allen

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

~ Bertolt Brecht

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

~ Suzy Kassem

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.

~ Nikki Rowe

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

~ Brennan Manning

Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

I asked myself only when he needed my help, How will the broken heal the wounded?

~ Sanhita Baruah

Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.

~ Thaiia Senquetta

You must have thought more times than you realized it will hurt.You should know it may. Okay. It may hurt immensely to open you up in your safe, dark space, sporadic light and chaotic air hitting you unlike anything you have known. Sometimes it will feel impossible to swallow. Because finding your way back to you involves telling the truth about oneself while pushing through a field of trees that are all whispering different tones of you.

~ Thaiia Senquetta

Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.

~ Thaiia Senquetta

For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.

~ Thaiia Senquetta

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

~ Marie Lu

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.

~ Han Kang

I don’t have to let anyone use me. I don’t have to bend the truth. Even if I’m not ready to forgive just yet, I don’t have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear that grew out of it. I can be myself and be honest and not be afraid. Not of getting hurt or of hurting others.

~ Ryan Galloway

You fear no inferno when you are born amidst flames.It’s another flesh wound, another lasting burn.Carry them with you.

~ Renee Ruin

You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

~ Ahmed Mostafa

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by twisting and bending around the wound: it is still recognizably a tree, it still lives as a tree, it still puts out its leaves and acorns, but its center, hidden deep within the curtain of green, remains empty and splintered where it hasn't been grotesquely scarred over. We are happy the tree hasn't died, and from the proper angle we can look on it and suppose that it is the same tree as it ever was, but it is not and never will be.

~ Robert Hicks

I had him in my cab once.Who? Neville askedRupert Brooke. He was good, him. There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England.That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?

~ Pat Barker

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

~ Nikki Rowe

She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.

~ Khadija Rupa

Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as well.

~ Adam Scythe

Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity. 'It must have made you very sad when your own father raped you - can you describe some of your feelings at the time? Yes, I wept and wept, wonder why something like this had to happen to me'. It's like that. Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.

~ Ryū Murakami

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

~ James Hillman

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

~ Ai Yazawa

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

~ Villiers De L'isle-Adam

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

~ Leslie Jamison

to love is to have ancient wounds exposed to vicious winds and be caressed instead of burned

~ Emery Allen

A little pain now and then is normal;The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay.Life goes on, but not forever,So why should we?

~ Margo T. Rose

A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more you bleed. And eventually, you will start falling in love with it. But the saddest part is, sometimes there comes a moment when you start to feel that all those wounds on your soul are not enough. And you start cutting yourself deeper, forgetting when to stop.

~ Akshay Vasu