Wounded Quotes

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Moi?” He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. “You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength.

I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.

The night is the balm for the wounded soul!

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...

...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

Some pain has no relief, it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love.

Hate wound the heart.

Hate is a wounded heart.

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.