Wound me. . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.
I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.
In flight. . . entire days can be wound back or skipped over. . . as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.
IMPALE, v. t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day.
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.