Wounds Quotes

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.