#wound

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#dreams

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#evil #good-intentions #hurt #looking-back #self-centered

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #servanthood #spiritual-life #wounds #faith

When on an emotional roller-coaster, take the leap of faith ... ↗

— Stephen Richards

#emotional-wounds #emotionally-scared #emotions #emotions-love #mind-power

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#emotional-wounds #family

Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#grief #heartache #hurt #injury #lick-your-wounds

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. ↗

— Stéphane Audeguy

#efficiency #war #wounded #men

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture. But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces. ↗

— Taylor Stevens

#damaged #fight-back #fissure #fracture #healing

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#christ #dejan-stojanovic #giordano-bruno #jesus-christ #poetry

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge. ↗

— Steven Adler

#crazy #figure #grudge #heal #hold