Quotes about injury

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

— Joseph Addison

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

— Marcus Aurelius

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

— Albert Camus

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

— Lord Chesterfield

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

— St. Francis of Assisi

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

— William Hazlitt

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

— Edgar Watson Howe

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

— Olive Schreiner

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

— William M. Thackeray

The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.

— Source Unknown

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

— Barbara Walters

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

— Leonard Cohen

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

— George Eliot