Wounded Souls Quotes

“so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.”
― George K. Simon

“They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.”
― Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us

“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order to deal with the piety or hypocrisy. Parishioners are a wounded souls in various stages of healing, who are being treated by angels, with credentials from the University of Hard Knocks. Some take their therapy seriously and try to practice what they learned. Yet, others down the sacrament like a healing dose of Prozac, with no other effort required. When you keep this in mind, you won't feel so annoyed by the personalities you encounter.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Adulthood is an attempt to become the antithesis of the wounded child within us.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Every person has a story; every person has a wound that he or she seeks to heal.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Wounds are what create depth in the human soul. Without the wounds, there would be no room for the seeds.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The sacred wandering is a healing journey. It gives us the courage to face old wounds. We bravely face our past hurts. If we don't give ourselves permission to feel the pain, we cannot heal the pain. We must feel it to heal it.”
― Dana Arcuri, Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark

“Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I guess that is what wounded souls do. They carefully annihilate the essence and self-worth of another, embedding seeds of their sinister darkness into them, so that with time, they create prototypes of themselves.”
― Husna Mohammad, Saudade

“Our physical wounds are by accident nathless the inner wounds we confiscate voluntarily”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Children, Maisie believed, could often only see their world in black and white, never shades of gray—which meant the hard-found forgiveness that provides respite from the dark melancholy of blame might never lift from the soul of a wounded child.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, In This Grave Hour

“Wound embraced is wound turned to ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Reed is nothing like these men. Never was. Instead, he is a master of disguise. A man so broken, his form shifts completely based on the angle of the light that meets him. He's like the cleome that bloom here in Mother's garden, changing from dark pink at night to pale come morning, then to white again before the bloom falls. Or the heirloom petunias. Or the Confederate rose. Never know what we might find when we visit them. Fickle flowers, they behave as if they've forgotten who they really are, always hiding, fooling us by showing only what they want us to see.
I now understand there have always been men like Reed in the world. A Judas. A wounded soul who causes tremendous harm for his own gain.”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“Wield your wounds like crown,
Savor your scars like chocolate.
Wounds may turn animals bitter,
They usher humans into gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“When your heart breaks, let it break,
Don't try to resist the shattering pieces.
It is from the abyss of burning misery,
Greatness emerges as phoenix from the ashes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“The best way to get scars to fade is to get cosier with ourselves.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya