“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

“To wound the heart is to create it.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

“Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.”

John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“Still falls the Rain —
Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side:
He bears in His Heart all wounds, — those of the light that died,
The last faint spark
In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark…”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

Mineko Iwasaki (1949) Japanese Geisha

“Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.”

Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept