Quotes tagged ‘wounds’

(39 total)

“I'm cut open, her fingers in all my stab wounds.”

“Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.”

— Christian Williams, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than we can imagine. You can’t see them with the naked eye. And then, there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick with any kind of wound or disease, is to dig down and find the real source of the injury. And once you’ve found it…try…”

— Mark Wilding, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“The length of your recovery is determined by the extent of your injuries. And it’s not always successful. No matter how hard we work at it, some wounds might never fully heal. You might have to adjust to a whole new way of living. Things may have changed too radically to ever go back to what they we…”

— William Harper, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can....But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a…”

— Gabrielle G. Stanton, Harry Werksman, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”

— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com

“We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when they find.”

— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com

“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuousl…”

— Hippocrates, amazon.com

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, goodreads.com

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com

“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy, imdb.com

“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

“Wounds are like water set to boil—they heal best left unwatched.”

— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com

“Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not.”

— Paulo Coelho, goodreads.com

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey, wellesley.edu

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”

— M.L. Stedman, amazon.com

“We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com