#wounded

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#heart #lonely #people #really #she

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

#grafted #green #inveterate #most #old

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#divine #divine love #feet #giving #hands

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#deep #lie #man #nature #original

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#army #care #could #daily #doctor

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve. ↗

— Thorton Wilder

#love #suffering #woundedhealer #love

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

#love #wounded #love

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#deeply #heart #touched #wounded

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. ↗

— Mary Church Terrell

#children #colored #crosses #heaviest #prejudice

I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened. ↗

— Francesco Borromini

#been #eight #half #half past #happened