“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”

— Abigail Adams

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}" by Abigail Adams?

Abigail Adams photo

Abigail Adams40

2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801) 1744–1818

Related quotes

“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“He comes, and his face is sad and mild,
With thorns his head is crowned;
There are great bleeding wounds in his feet,
And in each hand a wound.
How can I tell, who am a fool,
If this be Christ or no?
Those bleeding hands outstretched to me!
Those eyes that love me so!”

Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier

Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ

“Here sits the Unicorn;
The wounds in his side
Still bleed”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

The Unicorn in Captivity (1955)

“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

Laurell K. Hamilton Mistral's Kiss

Source: Mistral's Kiss

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Mean time the Queen wounded with deep desire,
Bleeds inward, and consumes in hidden Fire.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“When I stand up from my writing desk, "John Banville", or "Benjamin Black" – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black (2011)

“And a blade twitched into his heart, beginning the slow, massive bleeding he would never be able to stop, no matter what else he might accomplish. He was surprised and puzzled as he walked with that mortal wound in him, for it occurred to him that, although the wound would be the death of him, it would be the life of him too.”

Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962) American writer

Children at the Gate (1962)

Related topics