Wounds Quotes

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Time wounds all heels.

Whether a war is “just” or “unjust”, whether it is a war of aggression or of defense, the protection and care due to the wounded and sick are in no way affected.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

You had to be tough to survive being in the hospital during the Civil War.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

Listening can heal wounds.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

The trashing and trampling of comity leaves ugly scars that are sure to fester and linger.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Every man that lowered our flag was a Democrat.... Every preacher that said slavery was a divine institution was a Democrat. Recollect it! Every man that shot a Union soldier was a Democrat. Every wound borne by you Union soldiers is a souvenir of a Democrat.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.