Interesting quotes today on wounds and injuries.

[gryphonrhi]

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

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[vivwiley]

One of my favorites:

I don't worry about the wounds. When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. - Alan Paton, Ah, But Your Country is Beautiful

[gryphonrhi]

::nodding:: Yeah. That, too!

[beccadg]

The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy quote reminds me of a line from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. that I've never forgotten - "Some wounds never heal, they just grow old with time itself."

And the Neil Gaiman one reminds me of The Princess Bride line - "Life is pain."

[gryphonrhi]

Yeah, that's a great Man from UNCLE quote!