“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.” PeopleIfsSoulEndsWholeGrowsProcessGrowthMistakeForgivingGuiltWoundsBlanketCrippled Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.” MenEndsHomeDeathDiesHe ManSittingWoundsBreastsPaceDoomPierce Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.” DoeWarEndsHomeDreamNightMemoriesStreetsCarFellowsEndureSoldierWoundsHealGoing AwayComing HomeDisabilityMarineSailorSpineWakes YouAirmenBackfireFellow Soldiers Author:Barack Obama
“Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.” EndsWholeEnergyCommonPolicyPleaseWoundsOpeningPlease MeEnergy PolicyOld Wounds Author:Tony Benn
“Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.” KnowsFeelsMeanEndsSometimesEnemyMy FriendsStonesRoseStrangerWoundsMeans To An End Author:Ben Harper
“We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.” PersonsEndsCharacterStoriesLossHeroElementsInjusticeWoundsTalesFairyHeroicFairy TaleRecallsRestorationHeroinesArchetypeStepmothersHeroes And HeroinesHeroic Acts Book:The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know