Wound Quotes - page 2

Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart. (Emil Cioran)
She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me. View quote
Billy Joel
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. View quote
Devendra Banhart
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form. View quote
Cyril Connolly
A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect. View quote
Stevie Nicks
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound. View quote
Erica Jong
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here. View quote
Matthew Arnold
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)
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. View quote
George Herbert
Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound. View quote
Boris Pasternak
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. View quote
Rumi
A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. View quote
Randy Pausch
ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. (William Shakespeare)
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. View quote
Franz Kafka
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. View quote
Michael Ondaatje