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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
-Joseph Addison
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We can only make ourselves the victim.
-Gillian Anderson
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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
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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
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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
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
-Ben Elton
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Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
-Thomas Hardy
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
-William Hazlitt
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
-Edward W. Howe
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Don't agonize. Organize.
-Florynce R. Kennedy
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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
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
-Susan Sontag
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.
-Source Unknown
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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
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's 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
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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
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Books about Hurt, Injury
