#wound

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #hurt #word #wound #child

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#scars #wounds #regret

Some wounds run too deep for the healing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#wounds #healing

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#deadliest #heal #hurt #internally #outside

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#pain #suffering #wounds #healing

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned. ↗

— John D. Richardson

#broken #brokenhearted #christ #christianity #god

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#hurt #life-lessons #scars #wisdom #wounds

...the greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show. ↗

— From Dream Away song from The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

#hidden-pain #love-hurts #dreams

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ↗

— Robert Southey

#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb