A wounded spirit who can bear? [ Bible ]
He wounded a dead man to the heart. [ Proverb ]
Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit. [ Proverb ]
To a wounded heart, silence and shadow. [ Balzac ]
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]
Call not a surgeon before you are wounded. [ Proverb ]
These words are razors to my wounded heart. [ William Shakespeare ]
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherished thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears. [ Mrs. David Porter ]
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [ Goethe ]
Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word.
And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. [ Francis Thompson ]
Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]
A wounded conscience is able to unparadise paradise itself. [ ? ]
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger. [ George Eliot ]
Believe these tears, which from my wounded heart bleed at my eyes. [ Dryden ]
Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]
Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. [ La Roche ]
Like the plants that throw their fragrance from the wounded part, breathe sweetness out of woe. [ Moore ]
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. [ Balzac ]
The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]
The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it. [ Chateaubriand ]
I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. [ Ovid ]
It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive. [ Thoreau ]
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself - if I may be allowed the expression - than to itself. [ Greville ]
Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains. [ Henry Giles ]
Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]