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Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Roy Orbison

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It’s not very funny, but it’s sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan naturalized French writer

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn’t merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

George Woodcock

Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic (1912-1995)

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

Marcus Annaeus Lucan

God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill.

William Gurnall

Theologian who transcended barriers and with one book changed generations

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

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

American author and politician

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