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  • Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

    "Mr Benn delays EEC meeting". "The Times" Newspaper, December 13, 1975.
  • Oblivion cures the old wounds.

    "Memory and Oblivion". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
  • Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

    War   Pride   Old Wounds  
    Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage
  • The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".
  • I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.

    Sorry   Thinking   Nhl  
  • We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

    T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  • Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam
  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

    Love   Life   Inspiring  
  • The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

    Dark   Night   Old Wounds  
    Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr
  • Life and love go on, let the music play.

  • It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.

    Regret   Pain   Loss  
  • Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

    Pain   Fighting   Men  
    Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.106
  • You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

    Pain   Memories   Past  
  • Turn your wounds into wisdom.

    Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
  • Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

    Past   Old Wounds   Heal  
  • 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.

    Real   Book   Writing  
  • You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

    Iyanla Vanzant (1995). “Interiors: A Black Woman's Healing--in Progress”, Writers & Readers
  • You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

    Sex   Pain   Memories  
  • Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

    Hope   Old Wounds   Soul  
    Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”
  • Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

    Running   Real   Eye  
    Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
  • Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

  • The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

  • Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

    Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House
  • The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

    "Pope says Sri Lanka should seek truth over civil war" by Philip Pullella, Frank Jack Daniel, www.reuters.com. January 13, 2015.
  • Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

    Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.87, Penguin
  • For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

    Heart   Practice   Two  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan
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