Hurt, Injury

We can only make ourselves the victim. – Gillian Anderson

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

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

Once victim, always victim — thats the law! – Thomas Hardy

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. – Edward W. Howe

Dont agonize. Organize. – Florynce R. Kennedy

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

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! — what worthy man does not keep those in mind? – William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Its 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

When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil