Interesting quotes today on wounds and injuries.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. - Agatha Christie
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? - Lord Byron
The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar. - Ernst Schroder
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? - Edward Albee
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Every hour wounds. The last one kills. - Neil Gaiman
Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus. - Stephen Colbert Original post on Dreamwidth | Leave a comment on DW | Read
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? - Lord Byron
The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar. - Ernst Schroder
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? - Edward Albee
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Every hour wounds. The last one kills. - Neil Gaiman
Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus. - Stephen Colbert Original post on Dreamwidth | Leave a comment on DW | Read
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