Wounds

"I have used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved Wounds are all I'm made of Did I hear you say that this is victory?"

"This is a movement about the one in four girls and the one in six boys who are sexually abused every year, and who carry those wounds into adulthood."

"H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort."

"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it."

"Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.""

"If, as psychologists, we follow the analogy of the other biological sciences, we must expect to find normalcy synonymous with maximal efficiency of function. Survival of the fittest means survival of those members of a species whose organisms most successfully resist the encroachments of environmental antagonists, and continue to function with the greatest internal harmony. In the field of emotions, then, why would we alter this expectation? Why should we seek the spectacularly disharmonious emotions, the feelings that reveal a crushing of ourselves by environment, and consider these affective responses as our normal emotions? If a jungle beast is torn and wounded during the course of an ultimately victorious battle, it would be a spurious logic indeed that attributed its victory to its wounds. If a human being be emotionally torn and mentally disorganized by fear or rage during a business battle from which, ultimately, he emerges victorious, it seems equally nonsensical to ascribe his conquering strength to those emotions symptomatic of his temporary weakness and defeat. Victory comes in proportion as fear is banished. Perhaps the battle may be won with some fear still handicapping the victor, but that only means that the winner's maximal strength was not required."

"Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me."

"Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head; The least a death to nature."

"What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"He in peace is wounded, not in war."

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."

"The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure."

"The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst."

"I could not have felt more strongly about this subject. One day an aide, Buddy Masters, came to me. "General," he said, "I'm worried about your eyesight which is getting worse. You read all day here in the office and then you take a couple of hundred Purple Heart certificates home, sign them at night and read some more. I have found a way to ease this." "How?" "The other day over at the Navy I saw a new machine bought for the Secretary. It writes his signature automatically, and it only costs a few hundred dollars." "Save the money," I told him. "If those boys can get wounded, I can find time to sign my name on their Purple Hearts.""

"La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi."

"Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus."

"Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit."

"Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears."

"Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion."

"I was wounded in the house of my friends."