“sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that oflove touches it”
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
“Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.”
“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
“Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.”