39 Wounds And Healing Quotes

In the tapestry of life, every individual encounters wounds—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. These are the challenges that test our strength and resilience. However, it is through the process of healing that we often discover our true capacity for growth, transformation, and self-love. If you're navigating the complex journey of healing, or supporting someone who is, words can offer comfort, insights, and a sense of solidarity. Our curated collection of the top 39 wounds and healing quotes aims to inspire, uplift, and guide you toward a brighter, more empowered future. Dive in and allow these profound words to be a source of encouragement as you embrace your healing journey.

1. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” - Oprah Winfrey

2. “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.” - Euripides

3. “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.” - Leonard Cohen

4. “God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.” - Walter de la Mare

5. “There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.” - Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

6. “In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.” - Brennan Manning

7. “Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...” - Gabrielle Zevin

8. “The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.” - Brennan Manning

9. “THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty thing, or a thingHeroically lost, heroically found.No matter what disaster occurredShe stood in desperate music wound,Wound, wound, and she made in her triumphWhere the bales and the baskets layNo common intelligible soundBut sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea” - William Butler Yeats

10. “In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” - Brennan Manning

11. “The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.” - Isobelle Carmody

12. “Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.” - Isobelle Carmody

13. “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” - Cassandra Clare

14. “Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.” - Ai Yazawa

15. “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.” - Bertolt Brecht

16. “The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” - Wallace Stegner

17. “Time heals even the deepest wounds.” - Sharon E. Rainey

18. “Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.” - Marcia Lynn McClure

19. “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” - Wallace Stegner

20. “Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.” - Ken Page

21. “Some wounds run too deep for the healing.” - J.K. Rowling

22. “You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them” - Iyanla Vanzant

23. “Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.” - Shannon Alder

24. “[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel.""Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?” - Patrick O'Brian

25. “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love” - Clive Barker

26. “The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

27. “[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.” - Rebecca West

28. “You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.” - Michael Connelly

29. “Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.” - Nalini Singh

30. “If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.” - S. Kelley Harrell

31. “...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...” - John Geddes

32. “Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

33. “There’s only one way to find peace with a painful past and that is through a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. He alone, through His Spirit, can place a healing balm on our deep wounds. The Bible says: “You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there!” (Jeremiah 6:14 TLB)We (Beth and Sherrie) have found that in the places that hurt the most, God brings a promise from the Bible to our memory at just the right time. We have experienced comfort and growth through our growing relationship with Jesus and how we long for the same growth for you!” - Beth Willis Miller

34. “I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.” - Shannon L. Alder

35. “It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.” - Cheryl Strayed

36. “They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off.” - Jamie Schoffman

37. “Oblivion cures the old wounds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

38. “Those who are wounded wound others. Moses was wounded profoundly when he lost his birth family, his heritage, and his history. In the years to come, he would come to know Jehovah-rophe, the Healer of life’s sicknesses and sorrows. Exodus 15: 26b says, “…for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages)” - Beth Willis Miller

39. “Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.” - Paul Auster