Wounded Quotes

“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

“What broke your heart so bad
That you had to close every door,
That you say you have a dark soul
And can't utter the word 'love' anymore?”
― Sanhita Baruah

“We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.”
― Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

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

“Neither my acts have wiped the woes of
any sufferer out, nor have I cured
pains of wounded ones;
with the faith pompous mercenary,
O' Glorious! O 'Lord Almighty!
how can I bow my head in your adulation?”
― Suman Pokhrel, मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]

“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be
magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.”
― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath

“Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.”
― Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

“What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”
― John L'Heureux, An Honorable Profession

“When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,
you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I am wounded," he answered, "wounded; it will never really heal.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.”
― STEPHANE AUDEGUY, The Theory of Clouds

“I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Is your pride really so wounded that you would kill me over a kiss?”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them?
They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“There was some people hurt far worst than I was in that hospital, let me tell you. Poor old boys with arms and legs and hands and who knows what else missing. Boys what had been shot in their stomach and chests and faces. At night the place sound like a torture chamber - them fellers be howling and crying and calling for their mamas.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“To see a place as orphaned or wounded is also to reexamine the meaning of living and dying and to allow some curiosity and even a sense of marvel to emerge about the tactics things employ to persevere.”
― Trebbe Johnson, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places

“They were no longer the big, bad, scary kings of the afterworld. They were wounded boys who had grown into angry, resentful men”
― Jane Washington, A World of Lost Words

“One day you will meet someone with wounds as deep as yours--a wandering soul left in the cold by everyone they've ever known.

And together, you'll create a home with the warmth neither of you were ever shown.”
― Samira Vivette

“More torturous the tears, more alive the seer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Scars are not guilt marks,
Scars are mark of gallantry.
Scars are proof of resilience,
Scars are testament to bravery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Within wounds there is valor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“There are cracks across my heart, nothing can bar the pouring rays.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“When solar radiation strikes ionosphere, earth produces the northern lights. When suffering strikes psychosphere, mind produces heart light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim: Little Planet on The Prairie

“Once you wounded a thing, it scarred if it didn't die first. Perhaps he was the first of his brothers to have ever been wounded; it wasn't impossible. Once you were wounded, if you were lucky, you scarred. He was lucky without being grateful for it.”
― Nghi Vo, The City in Glass