Wound Quotes

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. (William Hazlitt)
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. View quote
Washington Irving
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. View quote
Joseph Addison
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? View quote
William Shakespeare
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! View quote
Walter Scott
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. View quote
George S. Patton
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
Robert Southey
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. (Laurence Sterne)
What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. View quote
Robert Browning
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars. View quote
Isabel Allende
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God. View quote
Colum McCann
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. View quote
Ann Patchett
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. View quote
Dave Winfield
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. View quote
Harry Crews
Never wound a snake; kill it. View quote
Harriet Tubman
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires. View quote
John Adams
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound. View quote
Edmund Burke
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. View quote
Jessamyn West
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear. View quote
Susie Bright
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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