Festering Wound Quotes & Sayings

They each had scars to deal with. Scars of a different kind, but scars nonetheless. If he could say something--anything--to make a difference, he'd do it, but there simply wasn't anything left to say. The reality of that made him downright sad. — Emily March

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby. — Aaron Eckhart

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. — Richard Russo

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The people moving in beat beside us have no idea what awful thing we're doing, what horrible, festering wound we've just ripped back open. — Stevie J. Cole

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect? — Palmer Luckey

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I mean, who wants to date a guy who thinks a girl who can't operate a fruit cup is attractive? — Adam Selzer

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism. — Vanessa Veselka

the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world. — Charles McCarry

There is no protection. To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below. — Toni Morrison

We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice. — Tim Kaine

She thinks I'm a monster and she doesn't even know I'm a demon yet. — Stacie Simpson

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. — Desmond Tutu

To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it. — Patty Houser

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. — Ed Koch

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous. — Bill Vaughan

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience. — Michael Shannon

Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God — John Climacus

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure. — Maryrose Wood

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more color, the more nutrients, usually. — Tina Thompson