Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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.
A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.
I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.
What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
I wound up getting a lot of other opportunities in the nineties, and then sort of as quickly as it started, it just as quickly ended around 2001. And so yeah, I'd love to continue acting but it's just not up to me.