Injury

(146 votes)   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
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(126 votes)   Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(102 votes)   Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(99 votes)   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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(95 votes)   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
1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

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(71 votes)   The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises.

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