Wounds
Wounds are all I'm made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory? ~ Eric Bloom and Michael Moorcock
Wounds, in medicine, are a type of physical injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, they specifically refer to sharp injuries which damage the dermis of the skin.
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- I have used up all my weapons, and I'm helpless and bereaved
Wounds are all I'm made of
Did I hear you say that this is victory?
- This is a movement about the one in four girls and the one in six boys who are sexually abused every year, and who carry those wounds into adulthood.
- Tarana Burke, TEDWomen 2018 (November 28, 2018), as quoted in "MeToo founder Tarana Burke: Campaign now 'unrecognisable'", BBC (November 29, 2018)
- H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 309
- What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
That which disfigures it.- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 84
- La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.
- The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
- Charles IX of France, to Coligny, who was fatally wounded in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 920
- At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 9
- The Jews...besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water...For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
- Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
- John 20:27 (NIV)
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- Hast thou not seen my horsemen charge the foe,
Shot through the arms, cut overthwart the hands,
Dying their lances with their streaming blood,
And yet at night carouse within my tent,
Filling their empty veins with airy wine,
That, being concocted, turns to crimson blood,
And wilt thou shun the field for fear of wounds?- Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine (1590), Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2
- If a jungle beast is torn and wounded during the course of an ultimately victorious battle, it would be a spurious logic indeed that attributed its victory to its wounds.
- William Moulton Marston, The Emotions of Normal People (1928), p. 2
- Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.- A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
- Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 3. 15. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 920
- Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.- The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.
- Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 5. 37. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 920
- Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.- Mrs. David Porter, "Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit", st. 2. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 920
- Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 229
- Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
The least a death to nature.- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 26
- What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 3, line 377
- He in peace is wounded, not in war.
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594), line 831
- He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 2, line 1
- The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure.- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 14
- The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst.- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 71
- Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers (1863), "The Thorn in the Cushion"
- I could not have felt more strongly about this subject. One day an aide, Buddy Masters, came to me. "General," he said, "I'm worried about your eyesight which is getting worse. You read all day here in the office and then you take a couple of hundred Purple Heart certificates home, sign them at night and read some more. I have found a way to ease this." "How?" "The other day over at the Navy I saw a new machine bought for the Secretary. It writes his signature automatically, and it only costs a few hundred dollars." "Save the money," I told him. "If those boys can get wounded, I can find time to sign my name on their Purple Hearts."
- Alexander Vandegrift, Once a Marine (1964), p. 272
- Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg!
Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!- Lord Uxbridge's leg was shattered, probably by a piece of case shot, at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815
- I was wounded in the house of my friends.
- Zechariah 13:6 (KJV)
