Wounded

Famous quotes containing the word wounded:

    The wounded surgeon plies the steel
    That questions the distempered part;
    Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
    The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
    Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole
    There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sinsick soul.
    —African-American hymn-writer. “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” l. 1-2.

    Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)