Rosa Parks Quotes

I've been hurt quite a few times.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.