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So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
Pain makes people who they are.
Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.
Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.
Art is born of humiliation.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.
Affliction is a bruising of a blessing; but it is a blessing from the hand of God.
The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.
Pain demands to be felt.
I wonder what's worse-the invisible scars they leave or the visible scars I inflict upon myself?
I have since become convinced that when we define ourselves by our wounds, we burden and lose our physical and spiritual energy and open ourselves to the risk of illness.
I don't look at the wound. I don't need to. I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. She branded me. Marked me as her property. It's a scar I'll carry to the grave.
We all have scars & deep pain. It's
what makes us human & vulnerable.
You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.
Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
All pain deserves to be felt
Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
Truth cannot be imparted. [] It must be inflicted.
What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
I am so wrapped up in the hurt I have received that I do not notice the hurt I inflict.
Enduring pain is like causing pain.
There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she - or he, of course, as the case may be - must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.
Wound me ... I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation
not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.
4.04 APOLOGY
A second insult be just a stiff apology,
As the first be when hurt was the party;
Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,
But healing from hurt - the desire only.
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That which wounds, shall heal.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Given in love. Defiled by remorse.
Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Requite injury with kindness.
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
The most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.
I use "perpetrated" because it's the kind of word that passive-voice writers are fond of. They prefer long words of Latin origin to short Anglo-Saxon words - which compounds their trouble and makes their sentences still more glutinous. Short is better than long. Of the 701 words in
Wounds like that ... wounds to the heart ... they leave ugly scars that never fade.
The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.
This was the sort of cruelty that only came from turned backs, from being ignored. Well-aimed lashes and direct blows were more easily understood. At least then the stricken knew their anguished cries were being heard.
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure
Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.
an agony of humiliated indecision
It is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.
Words don't heal. Art heals!
The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
some wounds aren't so easily healed.
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
The injury of words.
Yes, the brutality of words.
Wounds can sing a beguiling song.
bruises that cannot be seen are the most painful of all
I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
Is all the pain.
Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief.
Respect the wounds which you gave like that
Keep them in Heart for forever and never treated
Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.
Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
Some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
Sometimes natural and self-inflicted atonement is more severe than that of mankind's devising.
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.
A dead body revenges not injuries.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured ... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Athos smiled, victorious.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
The pain caused by this wound which He inflicts on me and the sweetness which accompanies it are so intense that I cannot even begin to describe it. However ... this pain and this
sweetness are completely spiritual, although it is also true that they are shared by the body to a high degree.
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
The way to heal is already in the wound.
Those who hurt are hurting.
In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.
Pains demand to be felt.
For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.