Owen Wister Quotes

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

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

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Injuries come only from the heart.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

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.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.