wound

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b469945	I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.	good-intentions self-centered looking-back wound hurt evil	Haruki Murakami
92baa97	Time heals all wounds.	time wound	Stephen King
9f3228c	What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.	healing wound soul	Leo Tolstoy
b35e219	Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.	people love sad-truth wound shots protect	Jodi Picoult
7060fd3	It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!	young-adult carrie-vaughn swashbuckling jill steel wound diana teen ya pirates	Carrie Vaughn
677a036	I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.	wounded doctors practice fail wound medicine hospital	Ernest Hemingway
e5a5cb0	The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.	pain death life forever denial effect itch mutilated unimaginable wound result knowledge	Robin Hobb
204f911	"A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown. ("An Episode Of War")"	woundedness wounded wound	Stephen Crane
af83fcc	Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.	revenge heterosexuality wound	Angela Carter
88eb37e	Had he healed one wound only to open another?	wound	Mary Balogh
6ed78c9	Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.	happy honesty hope life love confess recover rigourous-honesty heal broken-hearted pathetic treatment healing delusion tragic self-hate denial wound scars	Dennis Lehane
04542e9	Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.	simile evanescent spectral fog day fade wound night	Gregory Maguire

b469945

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

good-intentions self-centered looking-back wound hurt evil

Haruki Murakami

92baa97

Time heals all wounds.

time wound

Stephen King

9f3228c

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.

healing wound soul

Leo Tolstoy

b35e219

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

people love sad-truth wound shots protect

Jodi Picoult

7060fd3

It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

young-adult carrie-vaughn swashbuckling jill steel wound diana teen ya pirates

Carrie Vaughn

677a036

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

wounded doctors practice fail wound medicine hospital

Ernest Hemingway

e5a5cb0

The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.

pain death life forever denial effect itch mutilated unimaginable wound result knowledge

Robin Hobb

204f911

"A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown. ("An Episode Of War")"

woundedness wounded wound

Stephen Crane

af83fcc

Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.

revenge heterosexuality wound

Angela Carter

88eb37e

Had he healed one wound only to open another?

wound

Mary Balogh

6ed78c9

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

happy honesty hope life love confess recover rigourous-honesty heal broken-hearted pathetic treatment healing delusion tragic self-hate denial wound scars

Dennis Lehane

04542e9

Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

simile evanescent spectral fog day fade wound night

Gregory Maguire