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Wounded Quotes

What it means to carry a wound, literal or emotional.

Being wounded here is rarely just physical; one speaker describes being terribly wounded by a wife's death, folding grief directly into the word. The collection treats that kind of Pain as worth naming plainly.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Quotes by Ruhollah Khomeini

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

Quotes by Louis Leakey

I have a thing for working with wounded characters.

Quotes by Jane Jensen

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

Emotion Quotes

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes focus on physical or emotional wounds?
Both, one speaker references a literal clinic set up for the sick and wounded, while another uses wounded to describe deep grief after a wife's death. See the Pain quotes for related themes.
Is there a quote connecting wounded to storytelling?
Yes, one speaker admits having a thing for working with wounded characters, suggesting damage can be compelling material for fiction.
What does the wounded snake metaphor refer to?
One quote calls Americans the great Satan, the wounded snake, using the phrase as a hostile political metaphor rather than a literal description.
Is grief a major theme in these wounded quotes?
It's present in at least one striking line about being terribly wounded by a wife's death, showing how the word extends naturally into loss and mourning. The Struggle quotes touch on similar ground.
Who might find this wounded quotes page useful?
Readers exploring language around pain, aid work, grief, or damaged characters in fiction will find several distinct angles collected here.

Other lines widen the frame, from setting up a clinic for the sick and wounded to a storyteller's pull toward wounded characters, both forms of Struggle worth sitting with. A political metaphor even casts a nation as a wounded snake, tied to Identity on a larger scale.