Quotes on Injury

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.